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
as Freeman
Diahann Carroll
as Vivian
Ruby Dee
as Grandmother Baxter
Roger E. Mosley
as Bailey, Sr.
Esther Rolle
as Momma
Madge Sinclair
as Miss Flowers
Sonny Jim Gaines
as Uncle Willie
Art Evans
as Principal
Constance Good
as Maya
John M. Driver II
as Bailey, Jr.
Georgia Allen
as Mrs. Gurney
J. Don Ferguson
as Mr. Donleavy
