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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.
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Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision
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Muhammad Ali
Gideon Jackson
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Kris Kristofferson
Abner Lait
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Ron O'Neal
Francis Cardoza
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Edward Herrmann
Stephen Holmes
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John McLiam
President Ulysses S. Grant
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Ossie Davis
Narrator
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Barbara O. Jones
Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
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Sonny Jim Gaines
Brother Peter
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Joel Fluellen
James Allenby
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Grace Zabriskie
Ruth Lait
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Alfre Woodard
Katie
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Fred Covington
Sheriff Bentley
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Sonny Shroyer
Jason Hugar
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Ernest Dixon
Marion Jefferson
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Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Louise Jefferson
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Tom Delaney
Will Boone
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Ron Gural
Frank Carlson
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William Allen Young
Older Jeff Jackson
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Tony Ross
Young Jeff Jackson
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Howland Chamberlain
Isaac Went
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