Freedom Road
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 Ján Kadár
Trailer
Cast
Gregory White
Clair Willis
Howland Chamberlain
Isaac Went
William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Don Hood
Gen. Ganfret
Ritchie Montgomery
Soldier
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Peter Gabb
3rd White Trash Delegate
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Afemo Omilami
Young Black Man with Scars
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Danny Nelson
Auctioneer
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar