Freedom Road (1979)
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.
Casting
- 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
- Barbara O. Jones — Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
- Sonny Jim Gaines — Brother Peter
- Joel Fluellen — James Allenby
- Jean Foster — Ellen Allenby
- Grace Zabriskie — Ruth Lait
- Bill Mackey — Trooper
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