Eliza Briggs

Self - Wife of Harry Briggs

Nathaniel Briggs

Self - Son of Harry Briggs

Mary James Cottrell

Self - Reporter, The Charlotte Observer

Joseph A. DeLaine Jr.

Self - Son of Rev. De Laine

Duke Ellington

Self

Kari Frederickson

Self - Historian

Belinda Gergel

Self - Historian

Richard Gergel

Self - Author, Unexampled Courage

André Holland

Narrator

Sherrilyn Ifill

Self - President, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Rawn James

Self - Writer

Brent Jennings

Isaac Woodard

Gilbert King

Self - Writer

Kenneth Mack

Self - Historian

Patricia Sullivan

Self - Historian

Elizabeth Waring

Self - Wife of Judge J. Waties Waring

Orson Welles

Self

Laura Williams

Self - Great-niece of Isaac Woodard