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Danielle Deadwyler / Whoopi Goldberg / Sean Patrick Thomas / Haley Bennett / Frankie Faison / Ed Amatrudeau / Roger Gwen Smith / Jamie Lawson / Kevin Carroll / Jalyn Hall / Tosin Cole / John Douglas Thompson / Josh Ventura / Bren Dan Patrick Connor / Gail Everett-Smith / Sean Michael Webb / Tim Ware / A. Mitchell / J.P. Edwards / River Hughes / Njema Williams / Jackson Beals / David Caprita / Jamie Raynell | | Two white suspects were found not guilty in a trial by an all-white jury. In order to help her son get justice / Emmett's mother Mamie Till-Mobley (played by Danielle) decided to open the coffin at Emmett's funeral and let "Jet" magazine publish photos of her son's funeral. She wanted people around the world to know what happened to her son. Thousands of people subsequently saw Emmett's photo / making Emmett's case a symbol of the injustice done to black people in the South. Whoopi plays Emmett's grandmother / Alma Kaltan.
故事讲述了美国黑人民权运动中的一桩真实事件，1955年，年仅14岁的埃米特·路易斯·蒂尔被指 责与一名白人妇女有不正当关系后，被绑架并被残忍地杀害。两名白人嫌疑人在全白人陪审团的审判下，被判无罪。埃米特的母亲玛米·蒂尔-莫布利(丹妮尔饰)为了帮儿子伸张正义，决定在埃米特的葬礼上敞开棺材，并让《Jet》杂志刊登自己儿子葬礼照片，她想让世界各地的人们知道她儿子的遭遇。随后成千上万的人看到了埃米特的照片
