Freedom Road 1979
Former Union soldier and ex‑slave Gideon Jackson advocates for his fellow freedmen at a constitutional convention and, despite fierce resistance from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK, wins a seat in the U.S. Senate. He allies with sharecropper Abner Lait, and together they bridge ex‑slaves and white tenant farmers into a united political front.
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Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Howland Chamberlain
Isaac Went
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Ritchie Montgomery
Soldier
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Afemo Omilami
Young Black Man with Scars
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
Don Hood
Gen. Ganfret
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Louise Jefferson
William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
Ján Kadár
David Robbins
Wounded Redshirt
Jeremiah Shabazz
Well-Dressed Black Delegate
Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
Don Brady
2nd White Trash Delegate
James Bowman
1st White Trash Delegate
Ron Gural
Frank Carlson
Danny Nelson
Auctioneer
Gregory White
Clair Willis
Tom Delaney
Will Boone
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Carter
Stuart Culpepper
Major Walsh
Fred Covington
Sheriff Bentley
Ernest Dixon
Marion Jefferson
Jean Foster
Ellen Allenby
Robert Bloodworth
Major at Convention
Bill Holliday
Yankee Boss
Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
Howard Brunner
Lawyer Greene
Jerome Greene
Black Delegate
Bill Mackey
Trooper
Earl D.A. Smith
Hannibal
Tony Ross
Young Jeff Jackson
Eric Washington
Older Marcus Jackson
Rodney King Adams
Young Marcus Jackson
Barbara Chaney
Mrs. Ganfret
Lionel Ferbis Jr.
Uncle Baddy
Peter Gabb
3rd White Trash Delegate
Ian Graham
Jimmy Lait
Maurice Hunt
Dudley Carwell
Don Lutenbacher
Convention Speaker
Courtney Pledger
Mrs. Dupre
Bob Zay
Roger Dupre
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