Rating
48%
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Release Date
29 Oct, 1979
Runtime
03:06: (HH:MM)
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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Actors
Muhammad Ali
Kris Kristofferson
Ron O'Neal
Edward Herrmann
John McLiam
Ossie Davis
Joel Fluellen
Grace Zabriskie
Alfre Woodard
Sonny Shroyer
William Allen Young
Crew
Ján Kadár
Tony Brubaker
Howard Fast
David Zelag Goodman
Anne Goursaud
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