Freedom Road
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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.
Rating: 4.8 / 10
Cast
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
Crew
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Bill Webb - Set Decoration
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Ján Kadár - Director
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Tony Brubaker - Stunt Double
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Howard Fast - Novel
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Chet Walker - Producer
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