Director
Brett Alexander
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Dan Rather
Self - Narrator
Maya Angelou
Self - Friend
Ray Barron
Self - Nightclub Promoter
Chuck D
Self - Public Enemy
Ella Collins
Self - Half-Sister
Rod Collins
Self - Nephew
James Cone
Self - Professor
James Cotton
Self - Classmate
David Dubois
Self - Son of W.E.B. DuBois
James Farmer
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Peter Goldman
Self - Author
Pidie Lucus Green
Self - Waitress
Dick Gregory
Lionel Hampton
Brother James
Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis
Clarence B. Jones
Self - Legal Advisor to Martin Luther King
Quincy Jones
Yvonne Jones
Self - Sister
Charles Kenyatta
Self - Aide to Malcolm X
Wallace D. Muhammad
Self - Son of Elijah Muhammad
Gilson Pearsall
Self - Teacher
Gene Roberts
Self - Bodyguard and Undercover Policeman
Betty Shabazz
Self - Wife
Yusuf Shah
Self - Chief Aide and Author
Wesley Snipes
Self - Actor
Percy Sutton
Self - Legal Advisor
Mario Van Peebles
Mike Wallace
Self - NYC TV Journalist
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Self
Andrew Young
Self - Aide to Martin Luther King
Walter Cronkite
Self - Announces Death of JFKuncredited,archiveFootage
Fred Davis
Self - 'Front Page Challenge', with Malcolm Xuncredited,archiveFootage
Ossie Davis
Self - Delivers Eulogyuncredited,archiveFootage
Marcus Garvey
Self (in car during parade)uncredited,archiveFootage
J. Edgar Hoover
Self - Discusses FBI Relations with Colored Folkuncredited,archiveFootage
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self - JFK's Funeraluncredited,archiveFootage
John F. Kennedy
Self - Dallasuncredited,archiveFootage
Robert F. Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Self - March on Washingtonuncredited,archiveFootage
Malcolm X
Self - Speeches, Lies in Stateuncredited,archiveFootage
Elijah Muhammad
Selfuncredited,archiveFootage