David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King

Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson

Giovanni Ribisi as Lee White

Tim Roth as Gov. George Wallace

André Holland as Andrew Young

Colman Domingo as Ralph Abernathy

Common as James Bevel

Stephan James as John Lewis

Omar J. Dorsey as James Orange

LaKeith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson

Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper

Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Fred Gray

Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bayard Rustin

Kent Faulcon as Sullivan Jackson

Lorraine Toussaint as Amelia Boynton

Alessandro Nivola as John Doar

David Dwyer as Chief Wilson Baker

E. Roger Mitchell as Frederick Reese

Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover

Ledisi as Mahalia Jackson

Niecy Nash-Betts as Richie Jean Jackson

Corey Reynolds as Rev. C.T. Vivian

Wendell Pierce as Rev. Hosea Williams

Charity Jordan as Viola Lee Jackson

Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X

Trai Byers as James Forman

Stan Houston as Sheriff Jim Clark

Jeremy Strong as James Reeb

Tara Ochs as Viola Liuzzo

Stephen Root as Col. Al Lingo

Greg Maness as Aide

Haviland Stillwell as President's Secretary

Charles Black as Elder Marcher

Jody Thompson as White Marcher

Henry G. Sanders as Cager Lee

Montrel Miller as Young Marcher

Jim France as Gunnar Jahn

Michael Papajohn as Major Cloud

John Lavelle as Roy Reed

Stormy Merriwether as Jackson's Daughter

Martin Sheen as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Belafonte as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tony Bennett as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)