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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 29, 1979
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Worldvision,Braun Entertainment Group
- Cast
- Afemo Omilami,Bill Mackey,Edward Herrmann,Muhammad Ali,Earl D.A. Smith,Fred Covington,Howard Brunner,Gregory White,Ron Gural,Eric Washingtonand 38 more
- Director
- Ján Kadár
- Producer
- Chet Walker,Zev Braun,Leland Nolan
- Cinematography
- Charles Correll
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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