Movie

Freedom Road

★ 5.2/10 · 9 votes 1979 3h 6m Released

Drama

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

Muhammad Ali Gideon Jackson Kris Kristofferson Abner Lait Ron O'Neal Francis Cardoza Edward Herrmann Stephen Holmes John McLiam President Ulysses S. Grant Ossie Davis Narrator