Anthony Harris as Self - Mississippi Resident

Bruce Watson as Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

Karin Kunstler Goldman as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Julian Bond as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Dudley Connor as Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

Dorothy Zellner as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Peggy Jean Connor as Self - Mississippi Resident

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Patti Miller as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Tracy Sugarman as Self

Larry Rubin as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Rita Schwerner Bender as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Hollis Watkins as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Wally Butterworth as Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)

William Winter as Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

William J. Simmons as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)

William Scarborough as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

John Dittmer as Self - Historian

Charlie Cobb as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Eleanor Holmes Norton as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Ivanhoe Donaldson as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Bob Moses as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Charles McLaurin as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

James Forman as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Edwin King as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Fannie Lou Hamer as Self (archive footage)

Amzie Moore as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Dick Gregory as Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Bob Clark as Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)

Allen C. Thompson as Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

Linda Wetmore Halpern as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Susan Brownmiller as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Chris Williams as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Theron C. Lynd as Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

Dave Dennis as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Daisy Harris as Self - Mississippi Resident

Roscoe Jones as Self - Mississippi Resident

Walt Kaufman as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

Chris Hexter as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Ross Barnett as Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

Barbara Jan Nave as Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

Malva Heffner as Self (archive footage)

Albert Heffner as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson as Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Pete Seeger as Self

Ben Chaney as Self (archive footage)

Victoria Gray-Adams as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

Aaron Henry as Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Joe Rauh as Self (archive footage)

Sherwin Markman as Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68

Taylor Branch as Self - Historian

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Edith Green as Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)