"The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968."
Paul Winfield
as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Cicely Tyson
as Coretta Scott King
Tony Bennett
as Tony Bennett
Roscoe Lee Browne
as Philip Harrison
Lonny Chapman
as Chief Frank Holloman
Ossie Davis
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Cliff DeYoung
as Robert F. Kennedy
Al Freeman Jr.
as Damon Lockwood
Clu Gulager
as William Sullivan
Steven Hill
as Stanley Levison
William Jordan
as John F. Kennedy
Warren J. Kemmerling
as Lyndon Johnson
Lincoln Kilpatrick
as Waring
Kenneth McMillan
as Bull Connor
Howard Rollins
as Andrew Young
David Spielberg
as Beamer
Dolph Sweet
as J. Edgar Hoover
Dick Anthony Williams
as Malcolm X
Art Evans
as A.D. King
Frances Foster
as Alberta King
Charles Robinson
as Det. Ed Redditt
Roger Robinson
as Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Terry Alexander
as Bernard Lee
Ernie Lee Banks
as Ralph Abernathy
Robert Christian
as Wallace
Sheila Frazier
as June
Yolanda King
as Rosa Parks
Abby Mann
Director
Writer
Richard C. Meyer
Editor
James H. Spencer
Production Design
Byron 'Buzz' Brandt
Billy Goldenberg
Music
Dennis W. Peeples
Set Decoration
David Berlatsky
Paul Maslansky
Producer
Edward S. Feldman
Executive Producer
Michael Chapman
Director of Photography