2007-07-02 05:01:41 · 5 answers · asked by mstang 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Also, this is not referring to Rosa Parks.
2007-07-02 05:28:56 · update #1
Your thinking of the "Biography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Ernest J. Gaines. In it the central character ,Jane Pittman, tells the story of the ***** in the South from the end of Reconstruction to the rise of the Sixties Civil Rights Movement. She uses the drinking fountain as her gauge of Jim Crow Laws and how they are enforced. She and others sabotage the whites drinking fountain by breaking it or changing the sign with the sign on the Colors only and forcing the Whites to use the the inferior fountain sometimes they are caught but most times not. In the end she goes into the park and drinks from the Whites Only fountain in full view of the authorities and nothing seems to happen. Jane Pittman is probably supposed to be Rosa Parks and other like her who just said no the southern laws and started a sea change in America that still is going on today. It was also made into a great movie staring Cicely Tyson.
Though Jane Pittman is a fictitious character in a book the ideas that she fights for were and still are relevant today.
2007-07-02 05:40:20 · answer #1 · answered by redgriffin728 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may be referring to the novel MISS JANE PITMAN, the story of a former slave and her life till she was about 90. In the story, she defies the "law" and goes to drink water from a "whites only" fountain. She defied the law and was not arrested even though there were law enforcement officers, including the sheriff, there. Great novel and story, but it was just that--a novel.
Chow!!
2007-07-02 12:07:52 · answer #2 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure of the name of the woamn it was not her that had drank out of the fountain, it was her sons that did. I believe it was when the 3 of them were at a train station.
Sorry I couldn't be more help
2007-07-02 12:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by Justin P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, too, could only find fictional references to this. You aren't, perhaps, confusing this with Rosa Parks and the bus incident in 1955? Mrs. Parks refused to stand to let a white bus rider take her seat, and was arrested.
2007-07-02 12:17:12 · answer #4 · answered by Molly M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was Miss Jane Pittman, a slave from the day she was born.
Her slave name was Ticey. For more info check out the link below
2007-07-03 03:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by mystic_chez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋