Narrator

Annie McCall

Valerie

Miss Candy

Mrs. Harper

Doris

Mama Lucas

Self (1 episode)

Ms. Ella

Mary Wilson (1 episode)

Maude

Nanna Maria

Nanny

Self (1 episode)

Narrator (2 episodes)

Emelda West

Elsie Claviere

Grandma (voice) (1 episode)

Mrs. Henry

Grandmother

LaBelle Springbelt (1 episode)

(47 episodes)

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Margo

Mommit Porter

Herself - Narrator (4 episodes)

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

Hortence

Indigo

Sophia

Evangeline Ferguson

Jennie

Grandmother (voice)

Mother Abagail Freemantle (4 episodes)

Rachel

Lydia Wilson

Estelle Williams (6 episodes)

Narrator (voice)

Lucinda Purify

Rowena Finch (1 episode)

Rowena

Mammy Watkins (1 episode)

Jackie's Mother

(1 episode)

Corrine Dart

Narrator (voice) (1 episode)

Zora Neale Hurston

Mother Sister

Elizabeth Keckley (2 episodes)

(1 episode)

Faye Williams (2 episodes)

Mrs. Grimes

Self - Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)

Self (2 episodes)

Mary Tyrone

Female

Irene Whitfield

Grandmother Baxter

Queen Haley (3 episodes)

Leah Matanzima

(1 episode)

Julia Augustine

Ruth Campanella

Netta's mother

Ruth

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

Narrator (voice)

Sue Ann Lucas

Self - Guest (1 episode)

Lucinda

Laurie

Writer

Joan Robinson

Vicky Kingsbury

Catherine Collins (1 episode)

Harriet Tubman (1 episode)

Laura Smith (1 episode)

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Thief

Ruth Younger

Christine

Ruth

Elizabeth

Lucy Tyler

Irma Jackson

Rachel

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

Rae Robinson

Joan