On screen
Cast
29 credited performers
Ossie Davis
Narrator
Artwork unavailable
George Johnson
Self (archive sound)
Lorenzo Tucker
Self (archive sound)
Artwork unavailable
Lucia Lynn Moses
Self (archive sound)
Fredi Washington
Self (archive sound)
Artwork unavailable
Henry Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Josephine Baker
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Banks
Self (archive footage)
Clarence Brooks
Self (archive footage)
Cab Calloway
Self (archive footage)
Walter Connolly
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Dudley Digges
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Marcus Garvey
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Jack Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Noble Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Walter Long
Self (archive footage)
William Lundigan
Self (archive footage)
Mae Marsh
Self (archive footage)
Clarence Muse
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
William E. Pettus
Self (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Bud Pollard
Self (archive footage)
Paul Robeson
Self (archive footage)
Henry B. Walthall
Self (archive footage)
Ethel Waters
Self (archive footage)
Bert Williams
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Williams
Self (archive footage)