The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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An award-winning film tracing the life the fictional Jane Pittman from ten-year-old slave on a Louisiana plantation to the age of 110 when she takes part in a Civil Rights protest march. Starring Cicely Tyson. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines., A 110-year-old Black woman recounts her life during a 1967 press interview. She charts her childhood and youth as a slave on a southern plantation to the day, one hundred years later, when she defied racial injustice by walking up to a whites only drinking fountain.(Does not circulate)
Credits
- Directed by
- John Korty
- Written by
- Tracy Keenan Wynn
- Cast
- Odetta, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy
Complete catalog record
An award-winning film tracing the life the fictional Jane Pittman from ten-year-old slave on a Louisiana plantation to the age of 110 when she takes part in a Civil Rights protest march. Starring Cicely Tyson. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines., A 110-year-old Black woman recounts her life during a 1967 press interview. She charts her childhood and youth as a slave on a southern plantation to the day, one hundred years later, when she defied racial injustice by walking up to a whites only drinking fountain.(Does not circulate)
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NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q17332817 ↗ — country, credits
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