When last seen, this 110 year old woman is inspired by the death of Jimmy Aaron to drink from a whites-only water fountain.
She takes the last name of her common-law husband, Joe, who is killed while trying to tame a black stallion. Her adopted son, Ned Douglass, is a schoolmaster who is killed by the Cajun assassin Alvert Cluveau. Her name was once Ticey, and she changes her name when a Yankee soldier named Brown suggests it to her. When last seen, this 110 year old woman is inspired by the death of Jimmy Aaron to drink from a whites-only water fountain. FTP, name this former slave, whose "autobiography" was written by Ernest J. Gaines.
She takes the last name of her common-law husband, Joe, who is killed while trying to tame a black stallion.
Jane Pittman (accept The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)