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Freedom Road

Release Year
1979
Runtime
3h 6m
Genres
Drama
Directed By
Ján Kadár
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.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Muhammad Ali

Gideon Jackson

Ron O'Neal

Francis Cardoza

John McLiam

President Ulysses S. Grant

Ossie Davis

Narrator

Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter

Joel Fluellen

James Allenby

Jean Foster

Ellen Allenby

Grace Zabriskie

Ruth Lait

Bill Mackey

Trooper

Earl D.A. Smith

Hannibal

Alfre Woodard

Katie

Crew

Ján Kadár

Director

Charles Correll

Director of Photography

Terry James

Original Music Composer

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Original Music Composer

George Folsey Jr.

Editor

Anne Goursaud

Editor

Daniel A. Lomino

Production Design

Leland Nolan

Producer

Chet Walker

Producer

Howard Fast

Novel

David Zelag Goodman

Writer

Tony Brubaker

Stunt Double

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