The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

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.

Director: John Korty

Cast: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen, Will Hare, Katherine Helmond, David Hooks, Elinora B. Johnson, Warren Kenner, Dudley Knight, Derrick Mills, Michael Murphy, Valerie Odell, Odetta, Rod Perry, Roy Poole, Josephine Premice, Thalmus Rasulala