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Freedom Road

Release Date:October 29, 1979

Running Time:186 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Muhammad Ali Kris Kristofferson Ron O'Neal Edward Herrmann John McLiam Ossie Davis Barbara O. Jones Sonny Jim Gaines Joel Fluellen Jean Foster Grace Zabriskie Bill Mackey

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Synopsis

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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