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The heart of it is the endearing love of a mother and son. The body is the tragic loss and its history making impact. The soul is the transformation of Mamie Till-Mobley, who was able to mine her grief for a mission in life.

It's the very beginning of the mass movement we came to know as the struggle for legal and social justice in this country. Brown v. Board of Education had just been decided by the Supreme Court and there was massive resistance in the South. African Americans who tried to assert their equal rights following Brown were run out of their homes and forced off their farms through economic reprisals. They were intimidated, beaten and even murdered. This is the world Emmett walked into during the summer of 1955 after begging his mother to travel to the Mississippi Delta to visit relatives. The vacation of a lifetime for a confident, energetic and mischievous boy from Chicago who knew no boundaries in life. The boundaries began to close in on him as soon as he stepped off the train in Mississippi. Emmett's mutilated remains were returned to his mother two weeks later after he had been kidnapped, tortured for hours and finally shot and dumped into the Tallahassee River. A 75-pound gin fan, tied...