Freedom Road(1979)
movie - first aired/released 1979-10-29 - 186 min - audience 5.2
Drama
Directed by Ján Kadár
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 AliGideon Jackson
Kris KristoffersonAbner Lait
Ron O'NealFrancis 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
Grace ZabriskieRuth Lait- Bill MackeyTrooper
- Earl D.A. SmithHannibal
Alfre WoodardKatie- Fred CovingtonSheriff Bentley
Sonny ShroyerJason Hugar- Ernest DixonMarion Jefferson
- Sylvia Kuumba WilliamsLouise Jefferson
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- Tom DelaneyWill Boone
- Ron GuralFrank Carlson
William Allen YoungOlder Jeff Jackson- Tony RossYoung Jeff Jackson
- Eric WashingtonOlder Marcus Jackson
- Rodney King AdamsYoung Marcus Jackson
- Howard BrunnerLawyer Greene
Howland ChamberlainIsaac Went- Georgia AllenMrs. Carter
- James Bowman1st White Trash Delegate
- Don Brady2nd White Trash Delegate
- Robert BloodworthMajor at Convention
- Barbara ChaneyMrs. Ganfret
- Stuart CulpepperMajor Walsh
- Lionel Ferbis Jr.Uncle Baddy
Peter Gabb3rd White Trash Delegate- Ian GrahamJimmy Lait
- Jerome GreeneBlack Delegate
- Bill HollidayYankee Boss
Don HoodGen. Ganfret- Maurice HuntDudley Carwell
- Don LutenbacherConvention Speaker
Ritchie MontgomerySoldier
Danny NelsonAuctioneer
Afemo OmilamiYoung Black Man with Scars- Courtney PledgerMrs. Dupre
- David RobbinsWounded Redshirt
- Jeremiah ShabazzWell-Dressed Black Delegate
Gregory WhiteClair Willis- Bob ZayRoger Dupre
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