The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

TV-PG1974Drama
Synopsis
Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement.
Cast
Cicely Tyson, Odetta, Richard Dysart, Josephine Premice, Eric Brown, Joel Fluellen, Will Hare, David Hooks, Michael Murphy, Valeria Odell, Roy Poole, Thalmus Rasulala
Rating
TV-PG
Genres
Drama

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