Morgan Freeman

Self

Rosetta LeNoire

Self

Dick Campbell

Self

Frederick O'Neal

Self

Ossie Davis

Self

Paul Robeson

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Wershba

Self

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Jackie Robinson

Self (archive footage)

Hazel Scott

Self (archive footage)

Adam Clayton Powell III

Self - son of Hazel Scott

Sidney Poitier

Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

Canada Lee

Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)

Gertrude Jeannette

Self

Erik Barnouw

Self - broadcast historian

Gregory Abbott

Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)

Harry Belafonte

Self