During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Tom Hayward
Marvin Tayman
Minnie Hayward
Fred Tayman
George Tayman
Harris McIntyre
Sheriff Harvey Johnson
Harris McIntyre
Mrs. Cartwright
Sgt. Hunt
1st State Trooper
Rev. Farrell
Albert Jackson
Factory Worker
Rufus Cartwright
Loretta Tayman
Louis
Greenspan
Big Ed
Burton
Registrar
Mrs. Hattie Waters
Marvin Tayman's Secretary
Isaac
Well-Dressed Man
Mr. Smith
James
Trooper at Factory