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Freedom

Road

Released

1979

3h 6Min

4K

4.8

16+

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.

Drama

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Muhammad Ali

as Gideon Jackson

Kris Kristofferson

as Abner Lait

Ron O'Neal

as Francis Cardoza

Edward Herrmann

as Stephen Holmes

John McLiam

as President Ulysses S. Grant

Ossie Davis

as Narrator

Barbara O. Jones

as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

as Brother Peter

Joel Fluellen

as James Allenby

Jean Foster

as Ellen Allenby

Grace Zabriskie

as Ruth Lait

Bill Mackey

as Trooper

Earl D.A. Smith

as Hannibal

Alfre Woodard

as Katie

Fred Covington

as Sheriff Bentley

Sonny Shroyer

as Jason Hugar

Ernest Dixon

as Marion Jefferson

Sylvia Kuumba Williams

as Louise Jefferson

Tom Delaney

as Will Boone

Ron Gural

as Frank Carlson

William Allen Young

as Older Jeff Jackson

Tony Ross

as Young Jeff Jackson

Eric Washington

as Older Marcus Jackson

Rodney King Adams

as Young Marcus Jackson

Howard Brunner

as Lawyer Greene

Howland Chamberlain

as Isaac Went

Georgia Allen

as Mrs. Carter

James Bowman

as 1st White Trash Delegate

Don Brady

as 2nd White Trash Delegate

Robert Bloodworth

as Major at Convention

Barbara Chaney

as Mrs. Ganfret

Stuart Culpepper

as Major Walsh

Lionel Ferbis Jr.

as Uncle Baddy

Peter Gabb

as 3rd White Trash Delegate

Ian Graham

as Jimmy Lait

Jerome Greene

as Black Delegate

Bill Holliday

as Yankee Boss

Don Hood

as Gen. Ganfret

Maurice Hunt

as Dudley Carwell

Don Lutenbacher

as Convention Speaker

Ritchie Montgomery

as Soldier

Danny Nelson

as Auctioneer

Afemo Omilami

as Young Black Man with Scars

Courtney Pledger

as Mrs. Dupre

David Robbins

as Wounded Redshirt

Jeremiah Shabazz

as Well-Dressed Black Delegate

Gregory White

as Clair Willis

Bob Zay

as Roger Dupre

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