The story
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.
Cast & crew
Muhammad AliGideon Jackson
Kris KristoffersonAbner Lait
Ron O'NealFrancis Cardoza
Edward HerrmannStephen Holmes
John McLiamPresident Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie DavisNarrator
Barbara O. JonesRachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)Sonny Jim Gaines
Sonny Jim GainesBrother Peter
Joel FluellenJames AllenbyJean Foster
Jean FosterEllen Allenby
Grace ZabriskieRuth LaitBill Mackey
Bill MackeyTrooperExplore the crew
- Director
- Ján Kadár
- Producer
- Chet Walker
- Director of Photography
- Charles Correll
- Producer
- Leland Nolan
- Editor
- Anne Goursaud
- Writer
- David Zelag Goodman
- Editor
- George Folsey Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
- Original Music Composer
- Terry James