Overview
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
- Muhammad Ali as Gideon Jackson
- Kris Kristofferson as Abner Lait
- Ron O'Neal as Francis Cardoza
- Edward Herrmann as Stephen Holmes
- John McLiam as President Ulysses S. Grant
- Ossie Davis as Narrator
- Barbara O. Jones as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
- Sonny Jim Gaines as Brother Peter
- Joel Fluellen as James Allenby
- Jean Foster as Ellen Allenby