Freedom Road

Year: 1979

Runtime: 186 mins

Language: English

Director: Ján Kadár

Drama

Former Union soldier and ex‑slave Gideon Jackson advocates for his fellow freedmen at a constitutional convention and, despite fierce resistance from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK, wins a seat in the U.S. Senate. He allies with sharecropper Abner Lait, and together they bridge ex‑slaves and white tenant farmers into a united political front.

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