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Freedom Road

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Freedom Road — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • October 29, 1979
  • Runtime
  • 186 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Ján Kadár

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Freedom Road — Cast

Muhammad Ali photo Muhammad Ali Gideon Jackson Kris Kristofferson photo Kris Kristofferson Abner Lait Ron O'Neal photo Ron O'Neal Francis Cardoza Edward Herrmann photo Edward Herrmann Stephen Holmes John McLiam photo John McLiam President Ulysses S. Grant Ossie Davis photo Ossie Davis Narrator Barbara O. Jones photo Barbara O. Jones Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones) Sonny Jim Gaines Brother Peter

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