The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013) | Full Cast

Phil Bertelsen

DIRECTOR

Sabin Streeter

DIRECTOR

Jamila Wignot

DIRECTOR

Leslie Asako Gladsjo

DIRECTOR

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Self - host and narrator

Vincent Brown

Self - historian

Bernard E. Powers Jr.

Self - historian

Peniel E. Joseph

Self - historian

David Levering Lewis

Self - historian

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Self - lawyer and civil rights activist

Thavolia Glymph

Self - Historian

Kathleen Cleaver

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

Damon Keith

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

James H. Sweet

Self - historian

Isabel Wilkerson

Self - author

John Stauffer

Self - historian

Richard Newman

Self - Historian

Christopher L. Brown

Self - historian

Maulana Karenga

Self - historian and co-founder of US Organization

Annette Gordon-Reed

Self - historian

Christopher S. Parker

Self - author of 'Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South'

Mark Kelly Tyler

Self - Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal Church

Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander

Self - historian

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Self - historian, Harvard University

Douglas Egerton

Self - Historian

Michael Bertrand

Self - historian

Tricia Rose

Self - historian

Abu Bangura

Self - village head of Port Loko, Sierra Leone

Questlove

Self

Isatu Smith

Self - deputy coordinator, Bunce Island Project, Sierra Leone

Hari Jones

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

Steven Deyle

Self - Historian

Ford Nelson

Self - radio host, WDIA

David Pilgrim

Self - founder and curator, Jim Crow Museum

Daina Ramey Berry

Self - Historian

Kendra Field

Self - historian

Brent Hayes Edwards

Self - historian

Martin Duberman

Self - historian

Sowande Mustakeem

Self - historian

William Julius Wilson

Self - sociologist

Donald Bogle

Self - author

Kurt L. Schmoke

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

Heather A. Williams

Self - Historian

Edward Ball

Self

Ruby Bridges

Self

Robin D.G. Kelley

Self - historian

Thomalind Martin Polite

Self

Darryl R. Johnson

Self - mayor of Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Wess Young

Self - Tulsa race riot survivor

Tedra Williams

Self - Wess Young's granddaughter

Darrell S. White

Self - Director, Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture

Antawn Polite

Self - Thomalind Polite's husband

David C. Forbes Sr.

Self - civil rights activist

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Self

Charles Ogletree

Self - civil rights lawyer

Vanessa Holden

Self - Historian

Angela Glover Blackwell

Self - founder and president of PolicyLink

Michelle Alexander

Self - associate professor of law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Self

Michael Twitty

Self - food historian

Hannibal Johnson

Self - author

David W. Blight

Self - Historian

John Lewis

Self

Jane Landers

Self - historian

Patricia A. Sullivan

Self - historian

Terrence Stevens

Self - community activist, In Arms Reach Inc.

Thomas C. Holt

Self - Historian

Chuck D

Self

Kate Clifford Larson

Self - Historian

Jelani Cobb

Self - historian

Grace Lee Boggs

Self - author

Dan Rather

Self - former news anchor, CBS Evening News

Rochelle Bush

Self - Historian

Aram Goudsouzian

Self - historian

Paul Sylvester Jr.

Self - resident of New Orleans

Nikki Taylor

Self - Historian

Alvin F. Poussaint

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

Roland Doucette Sr.

Self - resident of New Orleans

W. Kamau Bell

Self

Colin Powell

Self

Paula Giddings

Self - historian