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Rated: 6.4 out of 10 with 208 votes.
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Main Actors:
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Louise Jefferson
William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
Howland Chamberlain
Isaac Went
Don Hood
Gen. Ganfret
Ritchie Montgomery
Soldier
Danny Nelson
Auctioneer
Afemo Omilami
Young Black Man with Scars
Gregory White
Clair Willis
Title:Freedom Road
Release Date:Monday, October 29th, 1979
Directed by:Ján Kadár
Genres:Drama
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