New ‘Till’ film misses real story of fight to overturn Jim Crow
Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023![Some 250,000 filed by Emmett Till’s 1955 Chicago funeral, helping fuel fight against Jim Crow nationwide. Till’s mother, Mamie, spent years protesting acquittal of two racists who killed him.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TillFuneral_8702-300x225.jpg)
“Till,” 2022, a film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu, starring Danielle Deadwyler. BY ILONA GERSH If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of…