Freedom Road
5.7
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.
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Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
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Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
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Narrator
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Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
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Ján Kadár Director · David Zelag Goodman Writer Howard Fast Author
United States release October 29, 1979 · Produced in United States · Production Worldvision
Production
Braun Entertainment Group
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Worldvision
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 29, 1979
TV · NBC
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