Raymond Arsenault as Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'

Genevieve Houghton as Self - Freedom Rider

Gordon Carey as Self - Core staff

Derek Catsam as Self - Historian

John Lewis as Self - Freedom Rider

Diane Nash as Self - Student, Fisk University

Charles Person as Self - Freedom Rider

Sangernetta Gilbert Bush as Self - Montgomery resident

John Seigenthaler as Self - Nashville resident

Evan Thomas as Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer

John Patterson as Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963

Clayborne Carson as Self - Historian

James Lawson as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

Jerry Ivor Moore as Self - Freedom Rider

Hank Thomas as Self - Freedom Rider

Moses Newson as Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)

Mae F. Moultrie Howard as Self - Freedom Rider

Brandt Ayers as Self - Journalist

Janie Forsyth McKinney as Self - Anniston resident

Gary Thomas Rowe as Self - FBI informant

Diane McWhorter as Self - Writer

Ted Gaffney as Self - Photographer

Harris Wofford as Self - Assistant to President Kennedy

Jim Zwerg as Self - Exchange student, Fisk University

Frederick Leonard as Self - Student, Tennessee State University

C.T. Vivian as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

Bernard LaFayette Jr. as Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary

William Harbour as Self - Freedom Rider

Catherine Burks-Brooks as Self - Freedom Rider

Delores Boyd as Self - Montgomery resident

Tommy Giles as Self - Aide to governor Patterson

Joan Mulholland as Self - Freedom Rider

Ernest Patton Jr. as Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)

Pauline Knight-Ofosu as Self - Freedom Rider

Israel Dresner as Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider

Glenda Gaither Davis as Self - Freedom Rider