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.
Damien Leake
Frank Custer
Alfre Woodard
Mattie
Dennis Farina
Supervisor
Ernest Rayford
Thomas Joshua
Moses Gunn
Heavy Williams
Clarence Felder
Bremer
Mary Alice
Lilah Dean
Cynthia Baker
Emma
Gerry Becker
Meyer
Wanda Christine
Woman in Bar
Nathan Davis
Judge Alschuler
Henryk Derewenda
John Kikulski
