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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1974, October 17
Directors: John Korty
Countries: United States of America
Production: Tomorrow Entertainment, Tomorrow Entertainment
Cast: Will Hare, Katherine Helmond, Richard Dysart, Carol Sutton, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Michael Murphy, Jerry Green, Beatrice Winde, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Bill Walker, Rod Perry

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.

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