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Freedom Road

Freedom Road1979

★5.2186 minDrama

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.

Director

Writer

David Zelag Goodman

Score

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Terry James

Stars

Muhammad Ali Kris Kristofferson Ron O'Neal

Cast48

Muhammad Ali
as Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
as Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
as Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
as Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
as Narrator
Barbara O. Jones
as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
S
Sonny Jim Gaines
as Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
as James Allenby
J
Jean Foster
as Ellen Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
as Ruth Lait
B
Bill Mackey
as Trooper
E
Earl D.A. Smith
as Hannibal
Alfre Woodard
as Katie
F
Fred Covington
as Sheriff Bentley
Sonny Shroyer
as Jason Hugar
E
Ernest Dixon
as Marion Jefferson
S
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
as Louise Jefferson
T
Tom Delaney
as Will Boone
R
Ron Gural
as Frank Carlson
William Allen Young
as Older Jeff Jackson
T
Tony Ross
as Young Jeff Jackson
E
Eric Washington
as Older Marcus Jackson
R
Rodney King Adams
as Young Marcus Jackson
H
Howard Brunner
as Lawyer Greene
Howland Chamberlain
as Isaac Went
G
Georgia Allen
as Mrs. Carter
J
James Bowman
as 1st White Trash Delegate
D
Don Brady
as 2nd White Trash Delegate
R
Robert Bloodworth
as Major at Convention
B
Barbara Chaney
as Mrs. Ganfret
S
Stuart Culpepper
as Major Walsh
L
Lionel Ferbis Jr.
as Uncle Baddy
Peter Gabb
as 3rd White Trash Delegate
I
Ian Graham
as Jimmy Lait
J
Jerome Greene
as Black Delegate
B
Bill Holliday
as Yankee Boss
Don Hood
as Gen. Ganfret
M
Maurice Hunt
as Dudley Carwell
D
Don Lutenbacher
as Convention Speaker
Ritchie Montgomery
as Soldier
Danny Nelson
as Auctioneer
Afemo Omilami
as Young Black Man with Scars
C
Courtney Pledger
as Mrs. Dupre
D
David Robbins
as Wounded Redshirt
J
Jeremiah Shabazz
as Well-Dressed Black Delegate
Gregory White
as Clair Willis
B
Bob Zay
as Roger Dupre

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