Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Roger E. Mosley, Esther Rolle, Madge Sinclair, Sonny Jim Gaines, Art Evans, Constance Good, John M. Driver II, Georgia Allen, J. Don Ferguson, Tonea Stewart, Monica Kyles, Rick Salassi
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.