'Women of the Movement' star Adrienne Warren hopes the series hits a nerve with viewers

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Tonight on ABC, it’s the debut of Women of the Movement — a limited series that tells the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley and her fight for justice after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was lynched and murdered by a white mob in Mississippi in 1955.

Adrienne Warren stars, and she hopes the series has a big impact on people.

“You get to hopefully look at this story and it humanizes these incidents for you,” she says. “That when you find out that someone’s son is taken from them, or their child is taken from them, that you realize that is