Released:
1979-10-29

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.

Director:
Ján Kadár

Runtime:
3h 6min

Genre:
Drama

• 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