| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aljernon Tunsil | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Lewis Erskine | Crew | Editing | Editor |
 Mark Samels | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
 Stanley Nelson | Crew | Directing | Director, Producer, Writer |
Laurens Grant | Crew | Production | Producer |
 Diane Nash | Cast | Actress | Self - Student, Fisk University |
 John Lewis | Cast | Actor | Self - Freedom Rider |
Joan Mulholland | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Hank Thomas | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Harris Wofford | Cast | Actor | Self - Assistant to President Kennedy |
Clayborne Carson | Cast | Actor | Self - Historian |
Bernard LaFayette Jr. | Cast | Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary | |
 John Seigenthaler | Cast | Self - Nashville resident | |
C.T. Vivian | Cast | Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council | |
Glenda Gaither Davis | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Raymond Arsenault | Cast | Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders' | |
Genevieve Houghton | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Catherine Burks-Brooks | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Charles Person | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Moses Newson | Cast | Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson) | |
Janie Forsyth McKinney | Cast | Self - Anniston resident | |
Brandt Ayers | Cast | Self - Journalist | |
Diane McWhorter | Cast | Self - Writer | |
Frederick Leonard | Cast | Self - Student, Tennessee State University | |
John Patterson | Cast | Actor | Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963 |
Sangernetta Gilbert Bush | Cast | Self - Montgomery resident | |
William Harbour | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Derek Catsam | Cast | Self - Historian | |
Pauline Knight-Ofosu | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Jim Zwerg | Cast | Self - Exchange student, Fisk University | |
Delores Boyd | Cast | Self - Montgomery resident | |
Gary Thomas Rowe | Cast | Self - FBI informant | |
Ernest Patton Jr. | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.) | |
Ted Gaffney | Cast | Self - Photographer | |
James Lawson | Cast | Actor | Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council |
Evan Thomas | Cast | Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer | |
Israel Dresner | Cast | Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider | |
Tommy Giles | Cast | Self - Aide to governor Patterson | |
Gordon Carey | Cast | Self - Core staff | |
Mae F. Moultrie Howard | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
Jerry Ivor Moore | Cast | Self - Freedom Rider | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
