Howard Rollins

as Captain Davenport

as Coalhouse Walker Jr.

as Virgil Tibbs

as Reverend Hundley

as George Haley

as Otis Travis

as Andrew Young

as Joseph

as Self

as Medgar Evers

as George Smith

as Samuel Carver

as Chuck Johnston

as Clay Beasley

as Doctor

as Carson

as Dr. Zack Williams

as James Smith

as Allen Campbell

as T.C. Russell

as Raoul

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

as Medgar Evers

as Honey Brown

as Walter Small

as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

as Chimbuko

as Self

as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

as Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs