The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Duration: 1:10

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Learning Corporation of America

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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)

Complete 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) NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.