Black Journal (1968) | Full Cast

Peter Downey

DIRECTOR

Phil Ruskin

DIRECTOR

Marvin Schlenker

DIRECTOR

Tony Brown

Self - Host

Lou House

Self - Host

William Greaves

Self - Host

Ponchitta Pierce

Self - Reporter

Jesse Jackson

Self

Coretta Scott King

Self

Louis Farrakhan

Self

Dick Gregory

Self

Melvin Van Peebles

Self

Billy Taylor

Self

John Henrik Clarke

Self

Amiri Baraka

Self

Charles Evers

Self

Fannie Lou Hamer

Self

Rhody McCoy

Self

Claude Lewis

Self

Betty Shabazz

Self

Jean Hutson

Self

A. Peter Bailey

Self

Robert Hooks

Self

Melba Moore

Self

William Marshall

Self

Jim Brown

Self

Roscoe Orman

Boy (segment, "Black Theatre")

Aretha Franklin

Self

Godfrey Cambridge

(segment, "Mass Media Satire")

J.J. Barry

(segment, "Mass Media Satire")

Estelle Evans

Mother (segment, "Black Theatre")

Arthur Ashe

Self

Kathleen Cleaver

Self

Elijah Muhammad

Self

Vantile Whitfield

Self

Bobby Seale

Self

Huey P. Newton

Self

Roy Innis

Self

Andrew Young

Self

Julian Mayfield

Self

Hosea Williams

Self

Sid Grossfeld

(segment, "Mass Media Satire")

John J. McKeithen

Self

Kelly-Marie Berry

Girl (segment, "Black Theatre")

C. Gerald Fraser

Self

John Blair

Self

Claude Brown

Self

C. Herbert Oliver

Self

Richard Moore

Self

Charles Hamilton

Self

Charles R. Gain

Self

John Singleton

Self

Paul Cobb

Self

Alexander Allen

Self

Whitney Young

Self

Dennis Jackson

Self

Lincoln Lynch

Self

Val Ward

Self

Earl Sweeting

Self

Ed Bullins

Self

Ronnie Tanner

Self

Charles Loeb

Self

Roy Wilkins

Self

Dan Watts

Self

Edwin Ogebe Ogbu

Self

Wilfred Ussery

Self

John A. Wilson

Self

Robert Johnson

Self

Earl Caldwell

Self

Bill Strickland

Self

Gladys Knight

Self

Isaac Hayes

Self

Rosalind Cash

Self

Smokey Robinson

Self

Roberta Flack

Self

Sarah Vaughan

Self

Joyce Walker

Self

Nikki Giovanni

Self

Tom Bradley

Self

Professor Longhair

Self

Al Bell

Self

Del Shields

Self

Courtland Cox

Self

Maulana Karenga

Self

Fred Norman

Self

Helen Barnes

Self

Keorapetse 'Willie' Kgositsile

Self

William H. Booth

Self

Craig Means

Self

Nathan Hare

Self

Ron Milner

Self

Howard Fuller

Self

Vivian Wilson Henderson

Self

Leroy Johnson

Self

Walter Bishop

Self

Larry C. Cager

Self

Reginald Hawkins

Self

Robert Clarke

Self

William Sonia

Self

Harvey L. Johnson

Self

Ted Gilliam

Self

Ralph Cazort

Self

Charles Hamilton

Self

Roger Dickerson

Self

Nathaniel Willis

Self

John Biggers

Self

Blyden Jackson

Self

Tom Wilson

Self

Henry Zac Carter

Self

Randolph Blackwell

Self

Ewart Abner

Self

John Smith

Self

Albert Cleage

Self

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self

John Lee Hooker

Self

Robert Beck

Self

John A. Williams

Self

Charles Koen

Self - Head of the Cairo Black United Front

John H. Johnson

Self

Charles Rangel

Self

Benjamin Hooks

Self

Ron Dellums

Self

Debbie Allen

Self

Diahann Carroll

Self - Co-Host

Ronnie Dyson

Self

John Conyers

Self

Kevin Hooks

Self

Adam Wade

Self - Co-Host

Angela Davis

Self

Linda Hopkins

Self

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Self

Lerone Bennett

Self

Percy Sutton

Self

Ossie Davis

Self