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.

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Director

Ján Kadár

Cast

Muhammad Ali

Kris Kristofferson

Ron O'Neal

Edward Herrmann

John McLiam

Ossie Davis

Barbara O. Jones

Sonny Jim Gaines

Joel Fluellen

Jean Foster