All language subtitles for Women Of The Movement s01e03 Let the People See.eng

GUIDE: That beautiful
Colonial mansion over there

is Mr. Alan Ladd's home.

Alan Ladd!

Yeah, gee, it would be nice
if we could see

Sue Carol walking
around there.

And over here on the left
is Shirley Temp--

BROADCASTER: This is a
WDUW Chicago Special Bulletin.

The body identified as
14-year-old Emmett Till

arrived by train this morning.

Till's mother, Mamie Bradley,
met the train

at the Central Street Station
this morning

and has since made a statement,
inviting the public.

The viewing will be held

at A.A. Rayner & Sons
Funeral Home...

The hell is this?

-All those wishing to pay--
-[click]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

I know you asked me
to leave him be.

But...

there's a whole lot
of people outside

waiting to
pay their respects.

And I just,

well...

I felt
I had to do something

to make it easier on them.

♪♪

It's just
a few stitches.

♪♪

I hope that's okay.

♪♪

You did a beautiful job,
Mr. Rayner.

♪♪

♪♪

We don't have to
open the doors.

Your family's here.
We could keep it private.

No one else
has to see.

I want them to see
what was taken from me.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Let them in.

♪♪

♪♪

[door opens]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[indistinct chatter]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[both crying]

No!

[sobbing]

♪♪

Reports estimate that
more than 10,000 people

have already viewed
Emmett Till's body,

with that number sure to
climb today at the funer--

[click]

Who do you think we feeding,
an army?

The same people
we've been feeding

since this nightmare began.

The repast
is for family.

I don't know why you
feel the need

to feed the entire Chicago
branch of the NAACP.

After everything
they've done for Emmett,

they might as well
be family.

Folks are gonna be expecting
a meal after the funeral,

and I'd rather have too much
than not enough.

We need
time to grieve.

I'm not standing
in your way, Mama.

You need time to grieve.

I will.

When those monsters are
indicted by a grand jury

and when they're in prison
for the rest of their lives.

And what if it doesn't
go our way?

Mama, don't.

An arrest [chuckles]
was a miracle,

but an indictment--

that doesn't happen.

Not for us.

I'm sorry.

But it needed to
be said.

Now, you know I don't keep
my good containers

on that bottom shelf.

Go on.

Car's on the way,
so we best get ready

if we don't want to be late.

Tell 'em to wait.

As if they'd start
the funeral without us.

You know what?

In this case,
maybe they would.

GENE:
Some people are better

at putting on a brave face
than others,

but if you get tired
of putting yours on today,

you let me know.

I'll sneak you out
the church's back door.

[chuckles softly]
I'm fine.

I will be,

as long as I don't
sit still for too long.

Just say the word.

[organ playing]

♪♪

♪ I don't know why

♪ I don't know why

♪ I have to cry sometimes

♪ I don't know why

♪ I don't know why

♪ I have to sigh, ooh,
sometimes ♪

♪ It would be a perfect day

♪ But there's trouble

♪ In my way

♪ I don't know why

-♪ But I'll find out
-[sobs]

♪ By and by

♪ Ooh, it would be a

♪ Be a perfect day

♪ But my trouble
keep on getting in the way ♪

♪ I don't know why

♪ But I'll find out

♪ Lord

♪ By and by

Remember.

Just say the word.

♪♪

BISHOP: Good morning.

CONGREGATION: Good morning.

To the members
of Emmett's family,

first and foremost
to his mother,

let me begin by saying
that this community

is not only praying for you,

but we are standing
with you.

I would also like
to take this opportunity

to thank local journalists

for your thorough coverage
of this case.

I pray that God blesses
each and every one of you

for your fine work
that you've done

to inform
the citizens of Chicago,

and even the world,
about this tragedy.

[congregation murmurs]

I have to be honest with you,
church,

I-I had to wrestle with God

about what I was
gonna say today.

I know I should talk about
His love and peace,

but this is a reckoning moment
in America.

-Yes.
-Yeah.

BISHOP:
We are in pain!

[congregation murmurs]

But we can mourn later.

For right now, we must act
on behalf of this young martyr,

who was a casualty of
the war of good versus evil.

And we must show that
the hatred of the creation

cannot undo the love
and the power of the creator.

[congregation murmurs]

[cash register dings]

[music playing on radio]

All right, anything else,
Mr. Chatham?

Well, I wouldn't mind
taking a few of them

Mary Janes
off your hands.

Sure.

♪♪

CHATHAM:
You know them?

CASHIER:
Oh, no, sir.

The way I figure it...

[cash register dings]

...we all gotta
stick together now.

-[coins jingling]
-Anything you want to contribute would be much appreciated.

Not today, hon.

♪♪

I don't think so.

Jimmy Hicks for
the Baltimore Afro-American.

DA Chatham, what makes
this case different

from the murder
of George Lee in May

or Lamar Smith
just weeks ago?

We arrested two suspects
in the Till case, that's what.

Yeah, but how confident are you
in procuring indictments

against the brothers
from an all-white grand jury?

The state's gonna see that we
take every precaution

to have a fair
and impartial jury.

And you think
that's possible down here?

I believe we have more
than sufficient evidence

to convince 18 reasonable men
to render indictments

when the grand jury convenes
on Monday morning.

Y'all stay cool, now,
won't ya?

Fittin' to be
a scorcher today.

STRIDER: Can't hardly
walk down the street

without some Yank sticking
a microphone in your face.

Well, I suppose
they're doing their jobs.

Well, I wish they'd
go do it somewheres else.

Until last night,

I thought that body was
buried and in the ground.

So you can imagine I was
a little, uh, miffed

when I got word
it arrived in Chicago.

You don't think
the boy's mother had a right

to dictate
where her son was buried?

That wake, more like a TV show
than anything I'd ever seen,

and from what I hear,

that woman's back at it
again today with the funeral.

Meanwhile, I got niggers
callin' the station,

writing letters,
threatening to lynch me.

You don't spook easy,
Clarence.

What's really
eating at you?

Sheriff Smith.

He's poking his nose
in where it don't belong.

The newspapers
published photographs

of that cotton gin fan
that we found around the body,

and I know he put 'em
up to it.

He's only looking for
the gin fan's owner.

Why can't he get it through
his thick skull,

this case is mine?

Because his kidnapping
investigation is ongoing,

Clarence, and if he can find out
where the gin fan came from,

he'll have
a better idea

of where the murder
actually took place,

and then we'll all be
one step closer

to locating witnesses
who can help track

Bryant and Milam's movements
that night.

Sheriff Smith's on our side.

The hell he is!

The gin fan is a piece
of evidence in my murder case,

always has been.

Now, he knows damn well he's got
no right to get in my way.

Now, Gerald, I want you
to make it clear to him

he's getting in your way
now, too.

Oh, I'm not getting drawn into
some turf war between you two.

Think of the press
like another tool in our belts

to get
these indictments.

You do realize that every
defense attorney in the county

has stepped up for
Milam and Bryant, don't you?

And I know how these cases
typically go,

but this isn't
a typical case for us.

We're talking about
a child.

Folks don't go
for that down here.

A whipping, maybe.

But what they did to that boy

makes us all look
like a bunch of savages.

And the papers are saying
10,000 people

attended that boy's
wake last night--

God only knows how many are
gonna be at the funeral today.

You really think a grand jury's
just gonna ignore all that?

♪♪

You already talk like
you got it in the bag.

The law is the law.

Just trying to
do my job.

Look, if Sheriff Strider
really is getting threats,

they aren't coming
from us.

There's probably some
well-intentioned white person

who thinks they're
helping the cause.

Or ill-intentioned,
trying to stir up some mess.

PACKTON: I hate to be the one
to break it to you,

but a bunch of us
staying out at the Delta Inn

saw those threatening letters,
and they didn't look doctored.

Huh.

Well, that explains
how Strider's threats

ended up
in southern papers.

Maybe we should invite him
out to Dr. Howard's

and see if he wants to set up
a follow-up interview.

[laughter]

Y'all are staying out
at Dr. Howard's,

in Mound Bayou?

We don't have
much choice.

All the hotels in Sumner
are whites only,

and the few places
in Clarksdale

that will accommodate us
are fully booked.

I reckon Dr. Howard's is
finer than any hotel

I ever set foot in.

I reckon you're right.

So, you were in Chicago
last night, for the viewing?

I was.

I-I haven't seen
any of the footage.

Is it as bad as they're saying?

His face?

It's worse.

REPORTER: Sheriff Strider.

Would you care to comment
on the condition

of the body
when you last saw it?

REPORTER #2: Is it true
that no autopsy was performed?

How about the public viewing
and the national media attention this case is getting?

When were you made aware
that Emmett Till's body

wasn't buried
in Mississippi?

This whole thing is a farce!

It is a hoax cooked up
by the NAACP.

A hoax?

Sheriff, you were there

when they pulled that boy
from the river.

♪♪

I seen the paper.

The photo of that boy
when he's "alive"

don't look like
nothing I saw.

I was trusting the word
of the Uncle.

Maybe that's where
I went wrong.

But as far as I know,
that boy's still alive.

♪♪

I don't understand.

That man signed
Emmett's death certificate.

How can he call this
a hoax?

He's using the press
to sway the grand jury.

In his own county?

What kind of people
are these?

The kind looking to preserve
their way of life

by any means necessary.

RAYFIELD: He wouldn't pull
a move like this

unless he thought we had a real
shot at getting an indictment,

so I say we beat him
at his own game

and use the press
to call his bluff.

We're supposed to bury
Emmett tomorrow.

But I'm willing to delay it.

Thousands of people
are waiting to see my boy,

and this will
give them more time.

If that sheriff doesn't think
it's Emmett,

let him come up here
and see for himself.

♪♪

The sheriff and the DA
are supposed to be partners.

Instead,
Clarence blindsides me

the weekend before
my grand jury hearing.

So now not only am I gonna
have to connect

Bryant and Milam's kidnapping
confession to Till's murder

to get the indictment,
I gotta convince the jury

that the boy's body
really is the boy's body.

Clarence has about as much couth
as a timber rattlesnake.

I ain't a bit surprised
by what he did.

Did that photo of
the cotton gin fan

lead to anyone coming
forward with information?

Not yet.

What about the third man?

The colored man Mose Wright
saw at his house that night

with Bryant and Milam?

Until we have a name, all we can
do is keep asking questions.

So that's it, huh?

Until you have a name,
I'm dead in the water.

I didn't say that.

There's some talk
going around

that a second colored man
may have been involved.

Is that right?

We don't have anything
solid yet-- on either witness--

but these rumors
mean something.

People around here
wouldn't be talking

unless folks were scared,

and they're scared
'cause we're close.

Yeah,
just not close enough.

We ain't giving up.

Me and my deputies are hell-bent
on finding these guys.

By chance, you think
you can find 'em

before I face the grand jury
in the morning?

CHATHAM:
Deputy Cothran, you took

Mose Wright's initial statement
that Emmett Till was missing.

Is that right?

DEPUTY COTHRAN:
Yes, sir, I did.

And you were on the scene
when the body was identified?

-Yes.
-And who identified the body?

Mose Wright.

Given the condition
of the body,

was Mose Wright able
to ascertain,

to your satisfaction,

the identity of his
great-nephew Emmett Till?

Yes.
Mose said it was the boy.

He was sure of it.

Even in its terrible condition.

And then there was the boy's
ring which backed it up.

What kind of ring was it?

It was silver.

Had an inscription,
the initials L.T.

CHATHAM: And what did you do
with that ring

after you removed it
from the body?

CHESTER:
I gave it to Mose Wright.

Chester, tell me,
were you able to determine

the race of the body
by looking at it?

Yes, sir, it was a Negro.

CHATHAM:
Is there any doubt in your mind

that the body retrieved

from the Tallahatchie River
on August 31st was Emmett Till?

Based upon the information
I was given, no.

No doubt in my mind.

After Deputy Cothran relayed
Mose Wright's statement,

that a man identifying himself
as Mr. Bryant

abducted Emmett Till
from his home,

did you pay Roy Bryant
a visit?

SMITH: Yes.

CHATHAM:
Did you ask him if Mose Wright's statement was true?

-I did.
-And what did he say?

That he kidnapped the boy,
just like Mose Wright said.

And what did you do after
Roy Bryant confessed?

I arrested him.

Tell us
what you did next.

I did a brief examination
of the body.

-Did you perform an autopsy?
-No.

It was more of a postmortem,
given the severe decomposition.

During the exam,
were you able to determine

the race of the body?

DR. OTKEN: No.
Not with complete certainty.

You were present
when Chester Miller

took possession of the body,
were you not?

I was.

One can only assume
a Negro undertaker is called

when a Negro victim
is involved.

Would that be accurate?

In normal circumstances,
when the victim's race

is immediately identifiable,
yes,

but it wasn't.

And I didn't make the call
to the undertaker.

Do you believe that body
to be one of a Negro, Dr. Otken?

♪♪

I can't say for sure.

What I can say,
with certainty,

is that Emmett Till
was missing for three days

when the body was retrieved
from the river.

That extreme level
of decomposition

after such a short amount
of time in the water

is highly unlikely.

Therefore, I can only conclude
that the body in question

is not that
of Emmett Till.

♪♪

♪♪

[shovel thuds]

It's over.

I gave them two days
to come up here

and examine Emmett's body,

and if they really had any
doubts, they would've come.

I suppose
I should be grateful

that we even got a hearing
in the first place.

It was greedy of me
to expect more.

Nonsense.

Baby, you got to give yourself
a break from the case.

You're right.

What happens next
is out of my hands.

And I'll drive myself mad
wondering

what the grand jury's
gonna do

when history
has already shown me.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[radio clicks]

After tens of thousands
of people

filed past his casket
over the weekend,

Emmett Till was finally
laid to rest this morning

at Burr Oak Cemetery.

[radio tuning]

This is for all you
lovebirds out there,

here's The Platters' smash hit
"Only You."

♪♪

♪ Only you

♪ Can make all this world
seem right ♪

♪ Only you

♪ Can make
the darkness bright ♪

♪ Only you and you alone

♪ Can thrill me

-[phone ringing]
-♪ Like you do

♪ My one and only...

Hello?

Yes, Rayfield.

No, no one's
called me yet.

♪ Can make
all this change in me ♪

We, the jury, find that
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam

did willfully,
unlawfully, feloniously,

and of their malice aforethought
kill and murder Emmett Till,

a human being.

MAMIE:
I can't believe it.

There's gonna be
a trial.

I have to call Mama.

♪ Understand the magic
that you do ♪

♪ You're my dream come true

♪ My one and only

♪ You

♪ One and only you

We have to thank you,
Rayfield,

for introducing us
to everyone at the NAACP--

we're forever grateful.

No need to thank me.

GENE: The credit belongs
to Mamie.

I don't have to
tell y'all,

this indictment
is unprecedented.

You know, before the viewing,
I was afraid

that I was making a mistake
letting the public in.

And then, right around the time
I started hearing people

screaming at
the sight of my boy

like he was some sort of monster
at a horror picture,

I was tempted
to shut that casket,

and I'm so glad
that I didn't.

Now I know that it had to be
done to get us here.

Amen.
You made this happen.

And you can keep
making things happen.

Mr. Wilkins is
keeping his word.

The NAACP would like you
to speak at a rally

at St. Matthew's Methodist
on the 16th.

ALMA: I'm sorry.

They want Mamie to speak?
For what reason?

RAYFIELD:
To continue the work--

to keep telling people
to fight on behalf of Emmett--

because these cases are
rarely won in the courtroom.

GENE: He's right.

The more
we talk about Emmett--

and who he was,
and who he could've been--

the better chance we have
at a conviction.

ALMA:
Mamie has given

a couple of statements
to local reporters.

Now you want her to
get on stage,

at a political rally
of all things?

She's a mother.

Making speeches
is not her job.

I think what Mama is saying is
we could use a little privacy,

and me getting up on a stage,
well, that--

that's not gonna get us any.

[sighs]

What's done is done, Mamie.

You're all over the papers
and on television.

Now you have to decide
if all your hard work

was only about Emmett...

or about all of us.

Unless the NAACP keeps
pressuring states

like Mississippi,

real citizenship for the Negro
will always be elusive.

If the government can't make
Mississippi change,

what makes you think
the NAACP can?

I don't care how much
pressure you apply.

How are my friends
from the North?

BOOKER: Dr. Howard.
Great to see you.

Helen tells me you settled
in the guest house just fine.

Oh, better than fine.
Thank you.

Join us.

We were just
disagreeing about

the future
of Mississippi Negroes.

I see. A little light
conversation over lunch, huh?

Jimmy here thinks that

if the U.S. government

can't enforce integration
down here,

Negroes won't
be able to either.

Now, I think the NAACP can force
the state's hand.

Well, don't count out

the Regional Negro
Leadership Council.

Ever since we organized
the gas station boycott,

there are Negro restrooms
in every station in Mississippi.

With all due respect,
a gas station boycott,

as powerful as it was,

wasn't a declaration of war
on white folks' way of life.

I'm on a hit-list of
the most powerful

white supremacist organization
in the South.

So, with all due respect,
I beg to differ.

The White Citizens' Council
considers

any attempt at integration
an act of war,

be it learning,
using the restrooms, voting--

and they are far more powerful
than the Klan,

because they wear suits,
not hoods.

They're doctors, they're judges,
they're lawyers,

and they are responsible
for killing

two of my closest friends
this year.

We may have a long way to go
with Smith and Lee's cases,

but the Till trial,

that's proof we're only going to
take so much down here.

Maybe.

But what if
they plead guilty

to avoid a trial--
and the death penalty?

I mean, Bryant did confess
to kidnapping the boy.

He also said
he let him go.

We all know that they didn't,
but why else

would the sheriff
run with this theory

that the body
isn't Emmett's?

To cast doubt on the jury pool.

There isn't a Negro
registered to vote

in this entire county,
thanks to the Citizens' Council.

If we can't vote,
we can't be jurors.

No one in that
deliberation room

is going to look
like Emmett.

Or his mother.

Well, that's why we're not
leaving it to the lawyers

or whatever jury they scrounge
up to ensure a conviction.

It is up to us to make sure
that this is a fair trial.

How the hell we gonna
stack the jury

when everybody
in Tallahatchie County

knows good and well

Bryant and Milam are
redneck peckerwoods?

Well, I guess we'll have to bus
jurors in from Hinds County.

Jesse, didn't your firm
sue Milam

a couple times
for bootlegging?

A couple?
Too many times to count.

Be that as it may,
those boys are gonna be tried

by a jury of good, white,
Anglo-Saxon men,

and I assure you we will find
12 suitable men for the job.

What about Bryant's wife?

She's just as southern as they
come, and that's good for us.

You're not thinking
about putting her

on the stand, are you?

It's too risky.

We need a joinder.

If we try Bryant and Milam
as co-defendants,

the state can't ask Carolyn

to testify against
her own husband.

Hold on.
Let's talk about this.

Don't we want her
to testify?

Well, I don't see
how that benefits us.

The wolf whistle, that's why.

If she can't testify, how do we
bring it into evidence?

Well, call me simple,

but doesn't the whistle
give the state motive?

[chuckles]

Maybe.

Maybe that's okay.

JUDGE SWANGO:
You men are here today to enter a plea on the charge of murder.

What say you?

Not guilty, Your Honor.

And you, Mr. Bryant?

♪♪

Not guilty.

Behind me, you'll find the
best group of trial attorneys

in all of
Tallahatchie County,

and we are extremely confident

that we have more than
enough proof

that the body found in the river
wasn't that of Emmett Till.

[crowd murmuring]

Not only do we believe
the state

will be unable to prove
this essential fact,

we believe that the proof
for the defendants

will convince
any reasonable person

that in all probability,
the body was that of a dead man

transported from some other
section to this county

by activists trying to stir up
racial tensions.

If you don't believe that's
the body of Emmett Till,

then who is it?

Where did it come from?

The investigation is ongoing.

What about
the boy's mother?

How could you possibly think
she'd be involved in a "hoax"?

Well, you know,
I don't pretend to understand

what goes on
in the minds of you people.

Uh, we'll save that discussion
for the witness stand.

Now, our team has learned

that the DA intends
to invite Mamie down here

to challenge our theory,
and we welcome that fight.

Our only hope

is that she does not invite
trouble along the way.

In Mississippi,
jurors don't take too kindly

to outside agitators.

That'll be all.

SIDNEY: Thank you.

HICKS:
Ruby Hurley and Medgar Evers.

I thought I saw Breland
wet himself.

Now I know why.

It's the NAACP's
dynamic duo.

[chuckles]

I take it
you both just got in?

MEDGAR: We just drove up
from Belzoni.

You two are always
burning the midnight oil.

How's Reverend Lee's case
coming along?

Look at you, always digging.
Are you ever off the clock?

That's rich,
coming from you.

Tell me,
what's the word?

Any chance
for an indictment?

When we have something
concrete to share,

you'll be
the first to know, Jimmy.

Right after the FBI.

All right, you two.

We're heading over
to Dr. Howard's.

Can we give you a lift?

No, I think I'm gonna poke
around here a little longer.

I'll see you out there later.

All right.

[engine starts]

[vehicle departs]

♪♪

MAN:
You a reporter?

You heard about
that third man?

Who hasn't?

The police have been trying
to track him down for days.

That surprise you?

Not at all.

If I knew something,
the sheriff's office

is the last place
I'd go with it.

What do you know?

His name.

Goes by Too Tight.

He's got a friend tending bar
over at Kings in Glendora.

From what I hear,
she might talk,

just not to the law--
or anybody in the press.

MAMIE: "Let the death of my son
light a fire in you

so powerful that hatred
cannot extinguish it."

[sighs] Good Lord.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Hello?

WOMAN:
Mamie Bradley?

Yes.

You thinking about going down
to Mississippi to testify?

Who is this?

You go ahead.

When you come back
to Chicago,

we've got a bomb ready
for you and Mayor Daley.

[click]

ALMA: They're threatening
to kill her

if she goes down there,

and you still want her
to testify?

Jury selection begins
in three days.

You tell me what Mamie
can say to the jury

that Mose
and the police can't.

They never called Mose
to testify for the grand jury,

and they may not call him
for the trial either.

-Why not?
-RAYFIELD: Who could say?

What matters is we got
the indictment.

And that District Attorney
wouldn't call you down there

unless he thought
it would help with his case.

The defense is running
with Strider's hoax theory.

As crazy as it is,
it's carrying weight down there,

but a mother's testimony
means something

in a southern courtroom.

GENE: Mamie...

what do you want to do?

I don't know.

But if I went,
I couldn't go alone...

I'll close down the barbershop.
I'll come with you.

Oh, I can't
let you do that.

Then we'd be without
two incomes.

Then I'll escort you.

And I can take a leave
from work, honey.

Do you think the state would
provide protection for us?

Our friends at the NAACP
sent a telegram

to Mississippi
requesting state protection.

We haven't heard back--
but I can assure you

that you'll be under
the full protection

of one of the finest,

most influential leaders
in Mississippi,

Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Howard.

Oh, you're familiar.

Of course.
I read the papers.

No one's fought harder
for our rights down there.

MAMIE:
And he wants to help me?

RAYFIELD: Well, he'd be honored
to house you during the trial.

To put your mind at ease,

his home comes with
a live-in security team.

Yeah, we're talking
about armed guards.

Armed guards?

Mamie, you have already
given so much.

Now is not the time
for you to be

making speeches
and causing trouble--

not when
your life is on the line.

♪♪

According to this paper,

Bryant and Milam,
they are war heroes

who "never got into
any meanness."

And that woman, the wife?

"A pretty brunette."

They're calling me
an outside agitator, Mama--

me, the mother
of a murdered child.

Mama, if I stay up here

and I curl up in some ball
and hide,

then I am an outsider,
an occasional agitator

when it's convenient for me
to speak up.

When it's self-serving.

But if I go and I give
that speech tomorrow

and I show up
at that courtroom

and I tell the jury
what only I can say--

is that it was my boy
in that box--

then maybe it will show them
that my-- my--

my words aren't meant
to cause trouble.

That this isn't some kind
of political statement.

[voice breaking]
This is pain.

It's a mother grieving
for her child.

They already done took
my only grandson,

and I'm not gonna
let them take you, too!

I know this is hard,

because you raised me
to be a good girl,

and good girls
don't fight back,

but I can't help but wonder
where I would be

if you had raised me
to fight.

If we had all been
brought up to fight.

I keep feeling like I'm watching
some other woman

talk to reporters
and calling the shots,

because before Emmett was gone,
Mama, that was your job,

and I let you do it--

all the heavy lifting
and the fighting.

But, Mama...

it's my turn.

I want to become
that brave woman,

a woman like you, Mama.

So maybe I can show someone
that one person--

one mother--
can make a difference.

♪♪

If you want to invite danger
into your life,

I can't stop you...

but I won't have
any part of it.

♪♪

[sighs]

♪♪

[applause]

Thank you for that warm welcome.

During the past few weeks,
I've spent a lot of time

trying to find the right words
to get through each day.

Nothing ever seems to fit,
because the truth is,

nothing can ever prepare
a mother for losing her child.

♪♪

♪♪

A month ago, I had a six-room
apartment here in Chicago.

I had a good job. I had a son.

And when something happened
to Negroes in the South,

I said, "That's--

That's their business,
not mine."

Now I know how wrong I was.

-Uh-huh.
-Yes.

The death of my son
has shown me

that whatever happens to any
of us, anywhere in the world,

had better be the business
of all of us.

[applause and exclamations]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

WOMAN:
♪ Congratulations, honey

♪ If you found somebody new

♪ Yeah

♪ Congratulations, honey

♪ If you found somebody new

♪ Yeah, oh, yeah

♪ I heard you found somebody

I'll take a beer,
whatever's cold.

♪ Yeah

ADELINE:
Sugar, tell me somethin'.

How is it that you're
in a juke joint

and ain't got a stitch
of sweat on you?

[chuckles]

Well, I guess I ain't got
no hips to shake.

♪ Yeah

I was actually hoping
to catch up with a friend.

Goes by the name of
Too Tight.

♪ Yeah, oh, yeah

What you want with him?

Met him in the fields
a while back.

He owes me a drink.

How long's a while?

A month or two.

You ain't seen him
around much lately?

Not in a spell.

I guess we in
the same boat, then.

How's that?

I ain't seen him
since Monday.

He's missing?

He'd been staying with me
and my husband.

They both work for one of them
Milam brothers.

♪ ...found somebody new

Listen, hon. I'd be happy
to help you find him.

With your husband's help,
of course.

How can I reach him?

♪♪

That's the problem.

You can't.

Henry Lee's missing, too.

♪♪

♪♪

I hate this,

but I couldn't let you go
down there being sore with me.

The paper said you drew
quite a crowd at St. Matthew's.

I couldn't see a single face
but Gene's.

You've always been
a fine speaker.

I may not have raised you
to fight,

but I guess I did something
right, didn't I?

Mama.

♪♪

You be safe,
my girl.

-Daddy will
take good care of me. -[sniffles]

Don't you worry.

♪♪

I'll look in on your mama.

Thank you.

♪♪

♪♪

Go get 'em, baby.

♪♪

♪♪

[airplane engine roars]

♪♪

♪♪

[bell dings]

♪♪

♪♪

[airplane engine roaring]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

MAMIE: If you don't mind,

I'd like to go
over the itinerary again--

so Daddy knows
what he's getting into.

RAYFIELD: Of course.

We've turned our itinerary
into our own version

of the
Underground Railroad...

beginning with our arrival
in Memphis,

where we'll be driven
to our first safe house.

♪♪

Welcome, Mrs. Bradley.
Let's get you inside.

After we cross, we'll make
our second stop

at a safe house
in Clarksdale,

where we'll stay until it's
safe to continue into Sumner.

After the court recesses
for the day,

we'll head out to Mound Bayou
to Dr. Howard's,

our safe house for
the duration of the trial.

There have been reports
of Mississippi troopers

targeting out-of-towners
as they cross the state line.

And I'm told they've gone
as far as

to pass license plate numbers
on to the KKK.

But if we sense any trouble, we
won't cross into Mississippi.

♪♪

Booker,
this is something else.

I don't know how you kept
your composure in that room.

I can't wait to meet her.

They sure do love her up north,
don't they?

I hope she doesn't expect that
same warm welcome down here.

GUARD:
Stay back, stay back.

YOUNG MAN: Please, let me in.

GUARD:
What's this about?

YOUNG MAN: It's about
that Chicago boy--

that boy that got killed!

He needs to speak
to Dr. Howard.

It's urgent.

[knock on door]

What is it?

On that morning, before those
men killed that boy,

some field hands saw him riding
in the back of a pickup truck,

sitting between
two Negro men.

Where?

A plantation out near Drew.

Near Drew?

-Are you positive?
-Yes, sir.

There's more than one
field hand saying so.

That's Sunflower County.

Will your friends
talk to us?

They ain't my friends.

I'm just telling you
what I heard.

If we can head out to Drew
and track them down,

maybe we can tie Bryant and
Milam directly to the murder.

MEDGAR:
If their stories pan out...

...it means the trial's
in the wrong county.

Which means we can
get it moved

out of Sheriff Strider's
jurisdiction.

Well,
there's not much time.

Trial starts tomorrow.

Then we better get started.

♪♪

This is it.

Right up ahead.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

RAYFIELD: Slow down.
It's a speed trap.

DRIVER: No need
to tell me twice.

♪♪

All clear.

♪♪

♪♪

[gasps]

No.

The state trooper's
following us.

Dear God.

♪♪

Let's pray.

♪♪

The light of God surrounds us.

The love of God enfolds us.

The power of God protects us.

The Life of God
flows through us...

♪♪

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