Freedom Road
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.
Top Billed Cast
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Featured Crew
Bill Webb
Set Decoration
Ján Kadár
Director
Tony Brubaker
Stunt Double
Howard Fast
Novel
Zev Braun
Executive Producer
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Original Music Composer
Daniel A. Lomino
Production Design
Terry James
Original Music Composer
George Folsey Jr.
Editor
Charles Correll
Director of Photography
David Zelag Goodman
Writer
Anne Goursaud
Editor
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