The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Award-winning story of Miss Jane, the courageous black women whose life story spans the century from the civil war to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the early 1960's. Stars Cicely Tyson and based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.

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"Award-winning story of Miss Jane, the courageous black women whose life story spans the century from the civil war to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the early 1960's. Stars Cicely Tyson and based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines."@en
"Among the most-honored films of all time, this program won an unprecedented nine Emmy Awards, including Best Director, Teleplay, and Actress (Cicely Tyson). This sweeping American saga, adapted from the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, covers a century in the life of Jane Pittman, a Louisiana black woman: it follows her life from her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South, to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the Civil Rights Movement at the age of 110."@en
"The story of the life of a black Louisiana woman, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of 110."@en
"Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110."@en
"Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110."
"The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten."
"The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten."@en
"Among the most-honored films of all time, this program won an unprecedented nine Emmy Awards, including Best Director, Teleplay, and Actress (Cicely Tyson). This sweeping saga covers over a century in the life of Jane Pittman, a Louisiana black woman. It follows her life from her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War Southto 1962 when she witnesses the birth of the Civil Rights Movement at the age of 110."
"Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement."@en
""Cicely Tyson stars in the title role in 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, ' the story of a former slave who lives to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960's. At 110 years of age, the fictional Miss Pittman's life spans a century of change that lends the grief, triumph and courage that tells the tale of the black struggle for dignity, equality and self-respect."--1974 Peabody Digest."@en
"Presents the story of of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and lived to march for her civil rights at the age of 110."@en
"Summary: In 1962, at the time of the first civil rights protests in the United States, a journalist comes to a small town in Louisiana to interview Miss Jane Pittman, a black woman who is celebrating her 110th birthday. She agrees to his taping her reminiscences and through flashbacks to various periods of her life the film attempts to convey aspects of the negro experience from the end of the Civil War up to the early sixties. She tells of the day she received her freedom, her survival during the tumultuous post-war period, her love for and marriage to the horse trainer Joe Pittman, his tragic death, the murder of her reform-minded foster son at the hands of local landowners and finally her reaction to the upheavals caused by the civil rights movement. Though always reluctant to get involved in politics, she decides that she too must take a stand when the son of a friend is killed during a demonstration. Author Ernest J. Gaines, on whose novel the film is based, set out to tell the story of one individual rather than the history of the black people and, through the superb performance of Cicely Tyson, Miss Jane Pittman is brought to life. The film, directed by John Korty from a screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn, won nine Emmy Awards when it was first televised in 1974 and many critics regard it as a milestone in television history. Awards: Emmy Awards."
"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)."
"The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old former slave."@en
"Presents the fictional story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110. Based on the book of the same title by Ernest J. Gaines. With Cicely Tyson."@en
"Chronicles the life of Jane Pittman, from her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she took her stand for civil rights at the age of 110."@en