Female-Led Civil Rights Historical Anthology Series Set at ABC From Will Smith and Jay Z

ABC is developing an anthology series based around historical women of the civil rights movement, ABC entertainment president Karey Burke said Monday during the Television Critics Association press tour. The series, titled “Women of the Movement,” is a chronology of the civil rights movement as told from a black woman’s point of view, with the first season centered on Mamie Till, who devoted her life to seeking justice in her son Emmett’s name following his murder in the Jim Crow South. ...