Stevie Wonder

Self

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Self - Artist

Chris Rock

Self - Artist

Tony Lawrence

Self - Harlem Cultural Festival Producer & Host (archive footage)

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)

B.B. King

Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Mavis Staples

Self - Singer (archive footage) (voice)

Mahalia Jackson

Self (archive footage)

David Ruffin

Self

Sly Stone

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Hugh Masekela

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Ray Barretto

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Herbie Mann

Self (archive footage)

Mongo Santamaría

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Questlove

Self (uncredited)

Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Self - Civic Leader

Walter Cronkite

Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self - Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self - Activist (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self - 35th President of the United States (archive footage)

Jesse Jackson

Self

Moms Mabley

Self (archive footage)

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Redd Foxx

Self - Comedian & Actor (archive footage)

Dorinda Drake

Self - Festival Attendee

Barbara Bland-Acosta

Self - Festival Attendee

Darryl Lewis

Self - Festival Attendee

Gladys Knight

Self - Musician

Dinah Shore

Self (archive footage)

Buzz Aldrin

Self (archive sound)

Al Sharpton

Self - Minister & Activist

Marilyn McCoo

Self - The 5th Dimension

Sheila E.

Self - Musician

Berry Gordy

Self - Founder of Motown Records (archive footage)

Neil Armstrong

Self (archive sound)

George Kirby

Self (archive footage)

Willie Tyler

Self - Ventriloquist (archive footage)

Billy Davis Jr.

Self - The 5th Dimension

John Chancellor

Self (archive footage)

Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

Self (archive footage)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Roebuck 'Pops' Staples

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner

Self (archive footage)

Selema Masekela

Self - Son of Hugh Masekela

Edwin Hawkins

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Self - Activist (archive footage)

Bones Howe

Self - Music Producer (archive footage)

Greg Errico

Self - Drummer, Sly & the Family Stone

Roy Ayers

Self

Musa Jackson

Self - Festival Attendee

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Self - Former Reporter, The New York Times

Cholly Atkins

Self - Choreographer for Motown (archive footage)