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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 fetch...
"Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black...
Bayonne, Louisiana, 1948. A young, naive black man has been sentenced to death for the murder of a white man - a murder that he did not commit. His attorney argues that he is too stupid to plan a crime. "Why, I would jus...
When a black man kills a Cajun farmer in rural Louisiana, a young white woman rallies the other black men to his defense. The "gathering of old men" face the local sheriff, each claiming to be guilty. Meanwhile, the brot...
À 110 ans, Miss Jane Pittman, une Noire qui a connu l'esclavage dans sa jeunesse, entreprend de raconter son odyssée: la guerre de Sécession, l'errance pour tenter de rejoindre le pays des Yankees libérateurs, le lab...
À 110 ans, Miss Jane Pittman, une Noire qui a connu l'esclavage dans sa jeunesse, entreprend de raconter son odyssée: la guerre de Sécession, l'errance pour tenter de rejoindre le pays des Yankees libérateurs, le lab...
A novel in which a Louisiana ex-slave tells the story of her long life from the end of the Civil War to the civil-rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century. 1971.
Bayonne, Louisiana, 1948. A young, naive black man has been sentenced to death for the murder of a white man - a murder that he did not commit. His attorney argues that he is too stupid to plan a crime. "Why, I would jus...