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Freedom Road

1979
Directed byJán Kadár
3h 6m

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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Muhammad AliGideon JacksonKris KristoffersonAbner LaitRon O'Neal
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Francis Cardoza
Edward HerrmannStephen Holmes
John McLiamPresident Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie DavisNarrator
Barbara O. JonesRachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
Sonny Jim GainesBrother Peter
Joel FluellenJames Allenby
Jean FosterEllen Allenby
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
4.8

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