Synopsis

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
John Korty
Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Eric Brown, Joel Fluellen, Will Hare, Katherine Helmond, David Hooks, Elinora B. Johnson, Warren Kenner, Dudley Knight, Derrick Mills, Valeria Odell, Odetta, Rod Perry, Roy Poole, Josephine Premice, Thalmus Rasulala, Al Scott, Dan Smith, Carol Sutton, Wilbur Swartz, Bill Walker, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Arnold Wilkerson, Beatrice Winde
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