The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
The life of a freed slave in the American Deep South, from the end of the civil war to the black protest movements of the Sixties.
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
A lonely girl finds companionship in a scraggy mutt.
The Help (2011)
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American Maid's point of view on the White families they work for.
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016)
A documentary portrait of the legendary poet and activist.
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