Freedom Road
(1979)

Released: 1979-10-29

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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.

Vote Now!

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Muhammad Ali

as Gideon Jackson

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Kris Kristofferson

as Abner Lait

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Ron O'Neal

as Francis Cardoza

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Edward Herrmann

as Stephen Holmes

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John McLiam

as President Ulysses S. Grant

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Ossie Davis

as Narrator

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Barbara O. Jones

as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

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Sonny Jim Gaines

as Brother Peter

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Joel Fluellen

as James Allenby

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Jean Foster

as Ellen Allenby

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Grace Zabriskie

as Ruth Lait

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Bill Mackey

as Trooper

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Earl D.A. Smith

as Hannibal

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Alfre Woodard

as Katie

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Fred Covington

as Sheriff Bentley

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Sonny Shroyer

as Jason Hugar

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Ernest Dixon

as Marion Jefferson

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Sylvia Kuumba Williams

as Louise Jefferson

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Tom Delaney

as Will Boone

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Ron Gural

as Frank Carlson

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