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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of blacks as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War .
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 259
- 1971
- 1971
6 apr 2022 · LULU SADLER CRAIG(12 August 1868 – 25 September 1972), educator, writer, community leader, was born Lulu Mae Sadler, in Platte County, Missouri, to her mothe...
- 20 min
- 29,1K
- Hezakya Newz & Films
Synopsis. The time is the early 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Jane (played by Cicely Tyson ), a former slave, is celebrating her 110th birthday. Two men tell her that a little girl is going to a segregated water fountain; she gets arrested because she is black.
- Tomorrow Entertainment
- CBS
Introduction. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman follows the life of one woman from her emancipation as a slave in the 1860s to her initiation into the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. A work of historical fiction, the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman takes place in rural Louisiana.
31 gen 1974 · The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Directed by John Korty. With Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen. Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
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- Drama, History
- John Korty
- 1974-01-31
7 ott 2020 · Trying to create an authentic ‘‘voice’’ while writing The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines studied the language of slave narratives, collected in WPA interviews with former slaves in Lay My Burden Down (Gaudet, ‘‘Miss Jane and Personal Experience,’’ 30).
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, novel by Ernest J. Gaines, published in 1971. The novel is set in rural southern Louisiana and spans 100 years of American history—from the early 1860s to the onset of the civil rights movement in the 1960s—in following the life of the elderly Jane Pittman, who witnessed those years.
