Freedom Road

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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.

Genere: Dramma

Cast: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson, Ron O'Neal, Edward Herrmann, John McLiam, Ossie Davis, Barbara O. Jones, Sonny Jim Gaines, Joel Fluellen, Jean Foster, Grace Zabriskie, Bill Mackey, Earl D.A. Smith