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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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Muhammad Ali

Gideon Jackson


Ron O'Neal

Francis Cardoza


Edward Herrmann

Stephen Holmes


John McLiam

President Ulysses S. Grant


Ossie Davis

Narrator


Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)


Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter


Joel Fluellen

James Allenby

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