The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (TV)
1974
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 changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous odyssey spanning over 100 years of southern history — from the horrors of slavery through Reconstruction to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
