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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Release Date:January 31, 1974

Running Time:112 min

Genres:Drama, TV Movie

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Cast

Cicely Tyson Eric Brown Richard Dysart Joel Fluellen Will Hare Katherine Helmond David Hooks Elinora B. Johnson Warren Kenner Dudley Knight Derrick Mills Valerie Odell

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Synopsis

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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