Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Executive Director Christina Shutt leads a panel discussion on the Life and Legacy of Emmett Till.

His tragic story is being retold by the powerful new television drama, “Women of the Movement.” The program also highlights his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and her fight for justice following Emmett’s brutal lynching.

The conversation will feature Marissa Jo Cerar, the creator and writer of “Women of the Movement,” along with Pamela Junior, Executive Director for the Two Mississippi Museums and Steven D. Booth, Archivist/Project Manager of the for Johnson Publishing Company Archive, co-stewarded by the Getty Research Institute and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

They’ll discuss the historical context of the two very different worlds Emmett Till experienced in Chicago and Mississippi, the impact photographs of his death published by Jet magazine had on public opinion at the time, and the importance the new television drama has had in fostering dialogue on the past and its relevance to present-day events.