Freedom Road
Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holms
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
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Barbara O
Rachel Jackson
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Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
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Jean Foster
Ellen Allenby
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Terry James
Composer
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Composer
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Charles Correll
Cinematographer
