Emmett Till Biopic

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Roger Ebert‘s widow Chaz Ebert will bring Emmett Till’s story to the big screen in the film-adaptation of Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, a book penned by his mother Mamie Till-Mobley and journalist Christopher Benson.

Till was lynched in 1955 after allegedly whistling at a White woman. His death galvanized the Civil Rights movement.

“The full Emmett Till story needs to be told now and told well as a narrative for our times, given all that is happening on American streets today and Shatterglass Films are the people to tell it,” Ebert said.

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