The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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Release date: January 31, 1974
Duration: 112 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Cicely Tyson
Jane Pittman
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Eric Brown
Jimmy (age 7)
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Richard Dysart
Master Bryant
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Joel Fluellen
Unc Isom
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Will Hare
Elbert Cluveau