Lin-Manuel Miranda
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)
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)
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
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
Musa Jackson
Self - Festival Attendee
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Self - Former Reporter, The New York Times
Cholly Atkins
Self - Choreographer for Motown (archive footage)
