The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Plot

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.

Cast

Cicely Tyson

Jane Pittman

Eric Brown

Jimmy (age 7)

Richard Dysart

Master Bryant

Joel Fluellen

Unc Isom

Will Hare

Elbert Cluveau

Katherine Helmond

Lady at House

David Hooks

Colonel Dye

Elinora B. Johnson

Mary

Warren Kenner

Job

Dudley Knight

Trooper Brown

Derrick Mills

Little Ned (age 5)

Valerie Odell

Ticey

Michael Murphy

Quentin Lerner

Odetta

Big Laura

Rod Perry

Joe Pittman