Freedom Road

Overview

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.

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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

Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter

Joel Fluellen

James Allenby

Jean Foster

Ellen Allenby