Fred Williamson

American football player and actor

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In blaxploitation movies
…actors of the era were Fred Williamson; Jim Brown, who became an actor after retiring from professional gridiron football; and Ron O’Neal. Because they accepted such roles, many prominent African Americans, such as Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Pouissant and Jesse Jackson, challenged them to consider the sort of role models that…
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