Name: Black History Month Movie Series
Date: February 24, 2018
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
Location:
Clinton Public Library 306 8th Ave South Clinton, Iowa 52732
Contact Information:
Megan Sattler Adult Services Coordinator
Fees/Admission: no charge
Website: http://www.clintonpubliclibrary.us
Event Description:
Join us in the boardroom for the showing of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”. Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) 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. Jane’s 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.