VANDERGRIFT'S VIDEOS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF MISS JANE PITTMAN
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN
From the book by Ernest J. Gaines Prism/Tomorrow Entertainment Color, 1973, 106
mins.
COMMENTS:
Starring Cicely Tyson, winner of nine
Emmy Awards. Covers a century in the life of Jane Pittman, a black Louisiana 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.
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Created February 28, 1996