

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Directed by Bill Duke
User score
4 votes



Released
April 10, 1984
1h 58m
English

Damien Leake
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Alfre Woodard
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Dennis Farina
Supervisor
Ernest Rayford
Thomas Joshua

Moses Gunn
Heavy Williams
Clarence Felder
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Mary Alice
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Cynthia Baker
Emma

Gerry Becker
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Wanda Christine
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Henryk Derewenda
John Kikulski
Phillip East
Joe Hodges
Paul Eaton
John Spriggs
Jason Green
Frank Custer Jr.

Stephen McKinley Henderson
James Cheeks

Gene Janson
Dennis Lane
Richard Lavin

Ted Levine
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John Mahoney
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