Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Paul Benjamin
Freeman

Diahann Carroll
Vivian

Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle
Momma

Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers
Sonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie

Art Evans
Principal
Constance Good
Maya
John M. Driver II
Bailey, Jr.
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Gurney

J. Don Ferguson
Mr. Donleavy

Tonea Stewart
Lillie
Monica Kyles
Julie
Rick Salassi
Parmenian