亨利·路易斯·盖茨

Henry Louis Gates

饰：Self - host and narrator

David Levering Lewis

David Levering Lewis

饰：Self - historian

Damon Keith

饰：Self - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

John Stauffer

John Stauffer

饰：Self - historian

Annette Gordon-Reed

饰：Self - historian

阿米尔-哈利卜·汤普森

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson

饰：Self

库尔特L·施莫克

Kurt L. Schmoke

饰：Self - former mayor of Baltimore and president of the University of Baltimore

Robin Kelley

饰：Self - historian

Wess Young

饰：Self - Tulsa race riot survivor

查尔斯·奥格尔特里

Charles Ogletree

饰：Self - civil rights lawyer

约翰·刘易斯

John Lewis

饰：Self

Kate Clifford Larson

饰：Self - Historian

William Jelani Cobb

饰：Self - historian

丹·拉勒

Dan Rather

饰：Self - former news anchor, CBS Evening News

W·卡茂·贝尔

W. Kamau Bell

饰：Self

Paula Giddings

饰：Self - historian

Peniel E. Joseph

饰：Self - historian

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

饰：Self - lawyer and civil rights activist

凯瑟琳·克利弗

Kathleen Cleaver

饰：Self - professor of law and former member of Black Panther Party

Maulana Karenga

Maulana Karenga

饰：Self - historian and co-founder of US Organization

Tricia Rose

饰：Self - historian

Hari Jones

饰：Self - assistant director and curator, African American Civil War Freedom Foundation and Museum

Martin Duberman

饰：Self - historian

William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson

饰：Self - sociologist

Donald Bogle

饰：Self - author

Thomalind Martin Polite

饰：Self

Angela Glover Blackwell

饰：Self - founder and president of PolicyLink

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

饰：Self

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

饰：Self

Chuck D.

饰：Self

Grace Lee Boggs

饰：Self - author

Jelani Cobb

饰：Himself, historian

Alvin F. Poussaint

饰：Self - civil rights activist, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

科林·鲍威尔

Colin Powell

饰：Self