The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings
By: [Ernest J. Gaines]
Contributors: Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883; Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954; Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780028179711
Subjects: African American women; Fiction; Older women; Noires américaines; Romans, nouvelles; Femmes âgées
Other titles: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman with related readings; Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; Miss Jane Pittman; Glencoe literature library : The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; 1960: the sit-ins.; I'm gonna sit at the welcome table.; Power of nonviolence.; Martin Luther King, Jr.
Description: The life story of a black woman born in slavery on a Louisiana plantation who is freed at the end of the Civil War and lives for 100 more years to see the second emancipation. The story begins in 1864 as she describes her young life during the end of the Civil War, and it ends 100 years later as she sets out with a group of friends to lead a demonstration for the freedom that had been promised her a century before.
Table of contents: title: The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines; title: I want women to have their rights ... I will shake every place I go to / speech by Sojourner Truth; title: The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell; title: Ernest Gaines / Tom Carter; title: from Everybody says freedom / Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser; title: 1960: the sit-ins; title: I'm gonna sit at the welcome table; title: Everybody says freedom; title: Martin Luther King, Jr.- the power of nonviolence; title: The trailblazer: Jackie Robinson / Henry Aaron; title: from I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.