Freedom Road

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Muhammad Ali

Gideon Jackson

Age : 74 | Popularity : 7%

Kris Kristofferson

Abner Lait

Age : 87 | Popularity : 14%

Ron O'Neal

Francis Cardoza

Age : 66 | Popularity : 4%

Edward Herrmann

Stephen Holmes

Age : 71 | Popularity : 7%

John McLiam

President Ulysses S. Grant

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Ossie Davis

Narrator

Age : 87 | Popularity : 6%

Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Age : 98 | Popularity : 5%

Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Charles Correll
Editing	Editor	Anne Goursaud George Folsey Jr.
Art	Production Design	Daniel A. Lomino
	Set Decoration	Jocelyn A. Cotlon Bill Webb
Crew	Stunt Double	Tony Brubaker
Writing	Novel	Howard Fast
	Writer	David Zelag Goodman
Production	Executive Producer	Zev Braun
	Producer	Leland Nolan Chet Walker
Directing	Director	Ján Kadár
Sound	Original Music Composer	Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Terry James
Department	Role	Name

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