Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
year: 1972, 2009, 1971, 1996, 1979, 1994, 1986, 1981, 1993, 1978
call number/section: 1000
subjects: african americans, louisiana, fiction, older women, elderly women, historical fiction, louisiana, fiction, african american women, slavery
Editions
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam (1972)
A 110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
Schools: 11
Gaines, Ernest J.
Dial Press (2009)
Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.
Schools: 3
Gaines, Ernest J.
Dial Press (1971)
A 110-year-old African American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the African American militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960's.
Schools: 5
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam Books (1996)
Schools: 8
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam Books (1979)
An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations.
Schools: 0
Gaines, Ernest J.
Recorded Books (1994)
Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.
Schools: 1
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam Books (1986)
Schools: 0
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam Books (1981)
Schools: 0
Broadway Video Enterprises, Inc. (1993)
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recants her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her veiws on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Schools: 0
Prism Entertainment (1986)
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Schools: 0
Gaines, Ernest J.
Bantam (1978)
Schools: 0
Korty, John
Schools: 0
Gaines, Ernest J.
Story of the life of a black Louisiana woman, from her childhood as a slave in pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of 110.
Schools: 0
Korty, John
Schools: 0
Gaines, Ernest J.
Schools: 1
Korty, John
Schools: 1
Korty, John
Schools: 1
Gaines, Ernest J.
Story of the life of a black Louisiana woman, from her childhood as a slave in pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of 110.
Schools: 1