Farah Jasmine Griffin

饰：Self - writer and educator

E.M. 'Woody' Beck

饰：Self - sociologist

Bernie Kassoy

饰：Self - retired teacher and visual artist

Henry Foner

饰：Self - retired teacher and union activist

Honey Kassoy

饰：Self - retired teacher and visual artist

Michael Meeropol

饰：Self - adopted son of Abel Meeropol

Robert Meeropol

饰：Self - adopted son of Abel Meeropol,(as Robby Meeropol)

Jeffrey Melnick

饰：Self - historian,(as Jeff Melnick)

Dorothy Thigpen

饰：Narrator

Milton Gabler

饰：Himself, Commodore Records

C.T. Vivian

饰：Himself, reverend and veteran civil rights activist

Michael Denning

饰：Himself, historian

阿比·林肯

Abbey Lincoln

饰：自己

阿米里·巴拉卡

Amiri Baraka

饰：自己

刘易斯·艾伦

Lewis Allen

饰：Self, (archive footage) (as Abel Meeropol)

皮特·西格

Pete Seeger

饰：Self

卡珊卓·威尔森

Cassandra Wilson

饰：Self,(archive footage)

Amina Baraka

Amina Baraka

饰：Self - poet and performer

Don Byron

饰：Self - composer

Josh White

饰：Self,(archive footage)

比莉·哈乐黛

Billie Holiday

饰：Self,(archive footage)