| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aljernon Tunsil | Crew | Editing | Editor |
 Richard Beymer | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
 Stanley Nelson | Crew | Directing | Director, Writer |
Tom Phillips | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
Cyndee Readdean | Crew | Production | Producer |
 Dick Gregory | Cast | Actor | Self - Comedian (archive footage) |
 J. Edgar Hoover | Cast | Actor | Self (voice) (archive footage) |
 Julian Bond | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
 Lyndon B. Johnson | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Martin Luther King Jr. | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Pete Seeger | Cast | Actor | Self |
Susan Brownmiller | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer |
 Taylor Branch | Cast | Actor | Self - Historian |
Dave Dennis | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
James Forman | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Chris Williams | Cast | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer | |
Charlie Cobb | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Bruce Watson | Cast | Actor | Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer' |
Anthony Harris | Cast | Actor | Self - Mississippi Resident |
 Eleanor Holmes Norton | Cast | Actress | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
William Winter | Cast | Actor | Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968 |
Bob Clark | Cast | Actor | Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage) |
Dudley Connor | Cast | Actor | Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage) |
Karin Kunstler Goldman | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer |
Theron C. Lynd | Cast | Actor | Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi |
Ivanhoe Donaldson | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Dorothy Zellner | Cast | Actress | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Roscoe Jones | Cast | Actor | Self - Mississippi Resident |
Walt Kaufman | Cast | Actor | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage) |
John Dittmer | Cast | Actor | Self - Historian |
Aaron Henry | Cast | Actor | Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer |
Charles McLaurin | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Bob Moses | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Ross Barnett | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage) |
Daisy Harris | Cast | Actress | Self - Mississippi Resident |
Allen C. Thompson | Cast | Actor | Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage) |
Patti Miller | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer |
Peggy Jean Connor | Cast | Actress | Self - Mississippi Resident |
Victoria Gray-Adams | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage) |
William J. Simmons | Cast | Actor | Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage) |
Amzie Moore | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Fannie Lou Hamer | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
Edwin King | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Edith Green | Cast | Actress | Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage) |
Tracy Sugarman | Cast | Actor | Self |
Malva Heffner | Cast | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
Rita Schwerner Bender | Cast | Actress | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Hollis Watkins | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
William Scarborough | Cast | Actor | Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council |
Sherwin Markman | Cast | Actor | Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68 |
Joe Rauh | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Larry Rubin | Cast | Actor | Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Chris Hexter | Cast | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer | |
Albert Heffner | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Linda Wetmore Halpern | Cast | Actress | Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer |
Wally Butterworth | Cast | Actor | Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage) |
Ben Chaney | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
Barbara Jan Nave | Cast | Actress | Self - Miss Mississippi 1963 |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
