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During the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman 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 named Brown changes her outlook. Janes emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil-rights movement.
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, a long walk toward freedom, marriage to Joe Pittman, her adopted son Neds work as an educator, helping to raise Jimmy, who returns as a civil rights worker, and her own decision to become involved in contemporary issues. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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 at age 5
Michael Murphy
Quentin Lerner
Valerie Odell
Ticey
Odetta
Big Laura
Rod Perry
Joe Pittman
Roy Poole
Mister Robert
Josephine Premice
Mme. Gautier
Thalmus Rasulala
Ned Age 42
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