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Freedom Road

1979

3h 6m

4.80

Drama

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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.

Cast

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

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

Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter

Jean Foster

Ellen Allenby

Bill Mackey

Trooper

Earl D.A. Smith

Hannibal

Fred Covington

Sheriff Bentley

Ernest Dixon

Marion Jefferson

Sylvia Kuumba Williams

Louise Jefferson

Tom Delaney

Will Boone

Ron Gural

Frank Carlson

Tony Ross

Young Jeff Jackson

Eric Washington

Older Marcus Jackson

Rodney King Adams

Young Marcus Jackson

Howard Brunner

Lawyer Greene

Georgia Allen

Mrs. Carter

James Bowman

1st White Trash Delegate

Don Brady

2nd White Trash Delegate

Robert Bloodworth

Major at Convention

Barbara Chaney

Mrs. Ganfret

Stuart Culpepper

Major Walsh

Lionel Ferbis Jr.

Uncle Baddy

Peter Gabb

3rd White Trash Delegate

Ian Graham

Jimmy Lait

Jerome Greene

Black Delegate

Bill Holliday

Yankee Boss

Maurice Hunt

Dudley Carwell

Don Lutenbacher

Convention Speaker

Courtney Pledger

Mrs. Dupre

David Robbins

Wounded Redshirt

Jeremiah Shabazz

Well-Dressed Black Delegate

Bob Zay

Roger Dupre

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