The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview:
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. Released: 1974
Casts:
Will Hare, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen, Warren Kenner, Valeria Odell, Beatrice Winde, Cicely Tyson, Odetta, Dudley Knight, Thalmus Rasulala, Al Scott, Roy Poole, Arnold Wilkerson, Dan Smith, Katherine Helmond, Eric Brown, Elinora B. Johnson, Collin Wilcox Paxton, David Hooks, Josephine Premice, Rod Perry, Carol Sutton, Bill Walker, Wilbur Swartz, Derrick Mills
