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.

• Ján KadárDirector
• David Zelag GoodmanWriter
• Coleridge-Taylor PerkinsonOriginal Music Composer
• Terry JamesOriginal Music Composer

• Muhammad AliGideon Jackson
• Kris KristoffersonAbner Lait
• Ron O'NealFrancis Cardoza
• Edward HerrmannStephen Holmes
• John McLiamPresident Ulysses S. Grant
• Ossie DavisNarrator
• Barbara O. JonesRachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
• Sonny Jim GainesBrother Peter
• Joel FluellenJames Allenby
• Jean FosterEllen Allenby
• Grace ZabriskieRuth Lait
• Bill MackeyTrooper