A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Poppa
Ma Ponk
Ma Pearl
Miss Alice (as Salli Richardson)
Miss Annie
Mr. Walter
Preacher Hurn
Cliff (12 Yrs.) (as Willis Norwood Jr.)
Miss Maybry
Mr. Will
Uncle Melvin
Cleve