Freedom Road
Freedom Road
Release: 1979-10-29
·Runtime: 186m
·★ 4.8
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Braun Entertainment Group
Worldvision
Cast
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)
Joel Fluellen
as James Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
as Ruth Lait
Alfre Woodard
as Katie
Sonny Shroyer
as Jason Hugar
William Allen Young
as Older Jeff Jackson
Howland Chamberlain
as Isaac Went
Don Hood
as Gen. Ganfret
Ritchie Montgomery
as Soldier
Danny Nelson
as Auctioneer
Afemo Omilami
as Young Black Man with Scars
Gregory White
as Clair Willis
