On screen
Cast
17 credited performers
Morgan Freeman
Self
Rosetta LeNoire
Self
Artwork unavailable
Dick Campbell
Self
Frederick O'Neal
Self
Ossie Davis
Self
Paul Robeson
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Joseph Wershba
Self
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Robinson
Self (archive footage)
Hazel Scott
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Adam Clayton Powell III
Self - son of Hazel Scott
Sidney Poitier
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
Canada Lee
Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)
Gertrude Jeannette
Self
Artwork unavailable
Erik Barnouw
Self - broadcast historian
Artwork unavailable
Gregory Abbott
Newsreel Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
Harry Belafonte
Self