The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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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  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
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  Katherine Helmond

  Lady at House
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  Michael Murphy

  Quentin Lerner
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  Odetta

  Big Laura
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  Rod Perry

  Joe Pittman
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  Roy Poole

  Mister Robert