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
Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
Jean Foster
Ellen Allenby
Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
Bill Mackey
Trooper
Earl D.A. Smith
Hannibal
Alfre Woodard
Katie
Fred Covington
Sheriff Bentley
Ján Kadár
Director
David Zelag Goodman
Writer
Howard Fast
Novel
Zev Braun
Executive Producer
Chet Walker
Producer
Leland Nolan
Producer
Charles Correll
Director of Photography
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Original Music Composer
Terry James
Original Music Composer
Anne Goursaud
Editor
George Folsey Jr.
Editor
Daniel A. Lomino
Production Design
