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.
Ján Kadár
Director
David Zelag Goodman
Writer
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
Cardboard Boxer63%
I'm Not Here58%
Mindwalk69%
All Day and a Night62%
The Browning Version64%
Burning Sands58%
That Evening Sun66%
Girl in the Box67%
Hardball65%
In This World62%
Lorelei59%
Home67%
El Greco59%
All Together Now67%
Cesar Chavez62%
El Chicano66%
O.G.59%
The Padre59%
Home Run61%
The Nest60%
