| | | | The Last March |
| | John Robert | Lewis | American politician, statesman, and civil rights activist. |
| | James M. | Lawson | John Lewis' teacher. |
| | Martin Luther | King, Jr. | African American Baptist minister and activist. |
| | Ralph D. | Abernathy | American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. |
| | Diane | Nash | Lewis fellow students and activist. |
| | Tertullian | | Christian theologian. |
| | Thomas | Jefferson | 3rd President of the United States. |
| | James | Madison | 5th President of the United States. |
| | Samuel | Adams | Leader of the Massachusetts' radicals. |
| | Juanita | Abernathy | Ralph Abernathy's wife. |
| | Juandalynn | | Ralph and Juanita's daughter. |
| | Hosea | Williams | Lewis' friend. |
| | Lyndon B. | Johnson | 36th president of the United States. |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | 16th president of the United States. |
| | Gouverneur | Morris | American statesman, and Founding Father of the United States. |
| | Reinhold | Niebuhr | A Protestant theologian. |
| | Theodore | Parker | An abolitionist. |
| | Dorothy | Day | American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. |
| | Mahatma | Gandhi | Pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during the British Raj. |
| | Martin E. | Marty | American historian of religion, educator, author, and theologian. |
| | Joseph | Lowery | The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. |
| | Julian | Bond | An old and intimate friend of Lewis. |
| | Homer | | The presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
| | Alexis | de Tocqueville | French political thinker and historian. |
| | Malcolm X | | African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. |
| | George | Washington | 1st president of the United States. |
| | Patrick | Henry | American attorney, planter, politician, and orator. |
| | Symmachus | | A Roman writer. |
| | Augustine of Hippo | | Early Christian theologian, philosopher and Church Father. |
| | Mark | Antony | Roman politician and general. |
| | William | Shakespeare | English playwright and poet. |
| | Julius | Caesar | Roman general, statesman and dictator. |
| | Bernard | LaFayette,Jr. | A Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator and lecturer. |
| 1 | | | A Hard Life, A serious Life |
| | Frank | Carter | Lewis' great-grandfather. |
| | Dink | | Frank Carter's son. |
| | Edmund | Pettus | American lawyer and politician. |
| | J. S. | Copeland | A major figure in Troy. Aka: Big Josh. |
| | Willie Mae | | Dink's daughter. |
| | Edward | Lewis | Willie Mae's husband. aka: Eddie. |
| | Edna | | Edward's twin sister. |
| | Lula | | Edward's mother. |
| | Henry | | Lula's ex-husband. |
| | Ora | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Edward Jr. | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Sammy | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Grant | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Freddie | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Adolph | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | William | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Ethel | | One of John Lewis' siblings. |
| | Rosa | | One of John Lewis' siblings. aka: Mae. |
| | Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States. |
| | Jesse Quinn | Thornton | American politician. |
| | Charles A.J. | McPherson | The secretary of the Birmingham's branch of MAACP. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Recy | Taylor | American civil rights activist and kidnap victim. |
| | Rosa | Parks | American activist in the civil rights movement. |
| | Richard | Wright | American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. |
| | J. S. | Copeland Jr. | Eddie's employer. aka: Little Josh. |
| | A. M. | Hickman | A white grocer from Troy. |
| | Riley | | Lewis' family's dog. |
| | Booker T. | Washington | American educator, author, orator. |
| | George W. | Carver | American agricultural scientist and inventor. |
| | Joe | Louis | American boxer who reigned as heavyweight champion for 11yrs. |
| | Mary McLeod | Bethune | American educator and civil rights leader. |
| | W. E. B. | Du Bois | American sociologist, historian, activist and writer. |
| | Kenneth | Clark | African American who obtain a doctorate degrees in psychology. |
| | Mamie | Clark | A psychologist, known for her research on race, and child
development. |
| | Earl | Warren | Former Chief Justice of the United States. |
| | Della | Mae | Lewis' cousin. |
| | Otis | Carter | Lewis' uncle. |
| | Coreen | Harvey | A woman who manage the library at Pike County Training School. |
| | Lena | Horne | American singer, actress, civil rights activist. |
| | Margaret | Truman | American actress, journalist, radio and TV personality and writer. |
| | Robert B. | Meyner | Governor of New Jersey. |
| | Thurgood | Marshall | The first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| | Walter | Rauschenbusch | American theologian and Baptist pastor. |
| | George H. W. | Bush | 41st President of the United States. |
| | Edward R. | Murrow | American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. |
| | William L. | Shirer | American journalist and war correspondent. |
| | Emmett | Till | African-American murder victim. |
| | Carolyn B. | Donham | The woman who is infamous for the murder of Emmett Till. |
| | Timothy B. | Tyson | American writer and historian from North Carolina. |
| | Moses | Wright | Till's great-uncle. |
| | Autherine | Lucy | The first African-American student to attend the Univ. of Alabama. |
| | Thomas | Brewer | African-American physician. |
| | Willie | Edwards Jr. | African American who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. |
| | Dietrich | Bonhoeffer | Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident. |
| 2 | | | The Spirit of History |
| | James | Bevel | A minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. |
| | Rev. C. L. | Franklin | African-American Baptist preacher and civil rights activist. |
| | Caesar A. W. | Clark | A revered pastor and an African-American community leader. |
| | L. S. | Sedberry | The ABT's executive secretary. |
| | Horace | Mann | American educational reformer and Whig politician. |
| | John Lewis | Powell | A faithful Methodist and one of officers of the local church. |
| | George W. F. | Hegel | German philosopher. |
| | Orval | Faubus | 36th governor of Arkansas. |
| | Dwight D. | Eisenhower | 34th president of the United States. |
| | Maynard P. | Turner Jr. | The president of Little Rock School. |
| | Fred | Gray | The secretary of the new Montgomery Improvement Association. |
| | William J. | Bryan | United States Secretary of State. |
| | Helen | Johnson | Lewis' first girlfriend. |
| | Coretta Scott | King | Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife. |
| | Yolanda | | King's eldest child. |
| | Kelly Miller | Smith | The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Nashville. |
| | James Morris | Lawson | The field secretary for the Fellowship Reconciliation. |
| | Jane | Addams | One of the members of the Fellowship Reconciliation. |
| | Norman | Thomas | One of the members of the Fellowship Reconciliation. |
| | Mordecai W. | Johnson | President of Howard University. |
| | Howard | Thurman | American author, philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader. |
| | Robert | Kennedy | Served as the 64th U.S. Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator. |
| | Henry David | Thoreau | American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist. |
| | Mo | Ti | A Chinese philosopher. |
| | Lao | Tzu | An ancient Chinese philosopher and poet. |
| | Nicolaus | Copernicus | A Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer. |
| | Ella | Baker | African-American civil rights and human rights activist. |
| | Frederick | Douglass | American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. |
| | Dred | Scott | Enslaved African-American man. |
| | Josiah | Royce | American philosopher and the founder of American idealism. |
| | Myles | Horton | American educator, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School. |
| | Andrew | Young | American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. |
| | Pete | Seeger | American singer and advocate for civil rights, peace, and equality. |
| | Eleanor | Roosevelt | Former First Lady of the United States. |
| | Septima P. | Clark | African American educator and civil rights activist. |
| | Marion | Barry | American politician and former mayor of the District of Columbia. |
| | Douglas E. | Moore | A Methodist minister. |
| | Will Davis | Campbell | A Baptist minister, lecturer, and activist. |
| | David | Halberstam | American writer, journalist, historian. |
| | Douglas | Frazier | A senior pastor of Baptist church. |
| | Stephen J. | Wright | Academic administrator. Served as the 7th Pres. of Fisk Univ. |
| | Z. Alexander | Looby | A lawyer in Nashville, who was active in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| | Richard | Russell Jr. | United States Senator from Georgia. |
| | R. Benjamin | West | An attorney, politician, mayor of Nashville and state senator. |
| | Harrison | Salisbury | American journalist and the first regular correspondent in Moscow. |
| | C. T. | Vivian | American writer and activist. |
| | James | Baldwin | American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. |
| | Harold M. | Fleming | American financial writer and political economist. |
| | John F. | Kennedy | 31th president of the United States. |
| |
Richard | Nixon | 37th President of the United States |
| | Elmyra | Gray | One of Lewis' fellow students. |
| | Maryann | Morgan | One of Lewis' fellow students. |
| 3 | | | Soul Force |
| | Gordon R. | Carey | A field director of the Congress of Racial Equality in New York. |
| | Raymond | Arsenault | American historian and academic in Florida. |
| | Stokely | Carmichael | A civil rights activist and the leader of Black nationalism in the US. |
| | James | Farmer | American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. |
| | Thomas | Merton | American writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist. |
| | Albert | Bigelow | A pacifist and former United States Navy Commander. |
| | Grady H. | Williams | A barber. |
| | Joe | Perkins | A reporter and anchor as well as a radio host at CTV Vancouver. |
| | Nathan B. | Forrest | Confederate Army General and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| | Ulysses S. | Grant | 18th President of the United States. |
| | Elwin | Wilson | A former supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| | Andrew | Dys | A longtime reporter and columnist at The Herald. |
| | Genevieve | Hughes | American civil rights activist. |
| | Howard K. | Smith | American journalist, radio reporter, and television anchorman. |
| | Harris | Wofford | American attorney, civil rights activist, and politician. |
| | Sargent | Shriver | American diplomat, politician and activist. |
| | Arthur M. | Schlesinger Jr. | A social historian at Ohio State University and Harvard University. |
| | William H. | Taft | 27th President of the United States. |
| | Maureen | Corr | Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary. |
| | John | Patterson | 44th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. |
| | John | Seigenthaler | American journalist, writer, and political figure. |
| | Bull | Connor | Birmingham commissioner during the Civil Rights Movement. |
| | Hugo | Black | U.S. Supreme Court justice. |
| | Strom | Thurmond | Governor of South Carolina, United States Senator. |
| | Harry S. | Truman | 33rd President of the United States. |
| | Catherine B. | Brooks | American civil rights movement activist and teacher. |
| | Fred | Shuttlesworth | Baptist minister and one of the South's Civil Rights leaders. |
| | Joe | Caverno | A white driver. |
| | L. B. | Sullivan | Former Alabama public safety director and prison commissioner. |
| | Stuart H. | Loory | American journalist and educator. |
| | Susan | Wilbur | A Freedom Rider. |
| | William | Doar | The chief lawyer in the Department of Justice Civil Rights division. |
| | MacDonald | Gallion | 38th Attorney General of Alabama. |
| | Calvin | Trillin | American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, and novelist. |
| | Rev. B. D. | Lambert | A preacher. |
| | Byron | White | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| | Murray | Kempton | American journalist and social and political commentator. |
| | Julia Ward | Howe | American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. |
| | Richard | Harris | African American pharmacist. |
| | Frank M. | Johnson Jr. | The Montgomery- based federal judge. |
| | Theodore H. | White | American political journalist and historian. |
| | William | Faulkner | American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. |
| | Fred | Jones | Parchman's superintendent. |
| 4 | | | In The Image Of God And Democracy |
| | Len | Holt | A civil rights lawyer. |
| | Jack | Gould | The New York Times' TV critic. |
| | Angeline | Butler | A young Fisk student from South Carolina. |
| | Chet | Huntley | American television newscaster. |
| | George | Wallace | 45th Governor of Alabama. |
| | Marshall | Frady | American Emmy Award-winning journalist and author. |
| | Jefferson | Davis | President of the Confederate States. |
| | Theodore | Sorensen | American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. |
| | Medgar | Evers | The Mississippi's field secretary for the NAACP. |
| | Myrlie | | Ever's wife. |
| | Marvin | Gaye | American singer-songwriter and musician. |
| | Curtis | Mayfield | American singer, songwriter, and record producer. |
| | Aretha | Franklin | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Shirley | MacClaine | American actress, singer, author, activist. |
| | Thaddeus | Stevens | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. |
| | Alexander H. | Stephens | Vice president of the Confederate States. |
| | Edward A. | Pollard | American journalist, historian and political writer. |
| | Robert E. | Lee | The leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War. |
| | Andrew | Johnson | 17th President of the United States. |
| | Eric | Foner | American historian. |
| | John Marshall | Harlan | U. S. Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associate Justice. |
| | W. J. | Cash | American writer. |
| | Harper | Lee | American author. |
| | Carleton | Putnam | American businessman and writer. |
| | Ross | Barnett | Governor of Mississippi. |
| | John | Bunyan | English writer and Puritan preacher. |
| | A. Philip | Randolph | Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician. |
| | Fiorello | La Guardia | Served three terms as mayor of New York City. |
| | John | Douglas | Robert Kennedy's assistant. |
| | John | Reilly | A Justice Department official and Kennedy's friend. |
| | Mahalia | Jackson | A singer. |
| | Nancy | Stern | SNCC staffer. |
| | Julian | Band | SNCC's communications director. |
| | Bayard | Rustin | American civil rights activist and gay rights activist. |
| | Roy | Wilkins | An activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. |
| | James | Eastland | American politician from the state of Mississippi. |
| | Jacob | Javits | A liberal Republican senator from New York. |
| | Barry | Goldwater | A five-term Senator from Arizona. |
| | Harry | Belafonte | Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. |
| | Richard | Reeves | Kennedy's biographer. |
| | James | Ferman | American television director. Lewis's SNCC's colleague. |
| | Roger | Williams | English Protestant theologian. |
| | Sam | Adams | 4th Governor of Massachusetts. |
| | William Lloyd | Garrison | American journalist and abolitionist. |
| | Eugene V. | Debs | American socialist, political activist, trade unionist. |
| 5 | | | We Are Going To Make You Wish You Was Dead |
| | Ella C. | Demand | A Sunday school teacher. |
| | Addie Mae | Collins | One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. |
| | Cynthia | Wesley | One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. |
| | Carole | Robinson | One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. |
| | Carol Denise | McNair | One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. |
| | John H. | Cross | A church pastor. |
| | J. MacGregor | Burns | American historian and political scientist. |
| | Albert | Gore Sr. | Served as a U.S. Rep. and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. |
| | Estes | Kefauver | Served as a U.S. Rep. and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. |
| | Ted | Sorensen | Kennedy's counsel and speechwriter. |
| | Lady Bird | | President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife. |
| | Whitney | Young | American civil rights leader. |
| | Paul B. | Johnson Jr. | American attorney serving as Mississippi governor. |
| | Bob | Moses | American educator and civil rights activist. |
| | Walker | Percy | One of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century. |
| | Edmund | Burke | Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist. |
| | Michael | Schwerner | American civil rights activist. |
| | Andrew | Goodman | American civil rights activist |
| | James | Chaney | American activist. |
| | David J. | Dennis | A civil rights activist active in the movement since the 1960s. |
| | Bruce | Watson | American writer who specializes in American culture and history. |
| | Robert F. | Wiliams | American civil rights leader and author. |
| | Alex | Haley | American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist. |
| | Elijah | Muhammad | Leader of the black separatist religious movement. |
| | Marcus | Garvey | Jamaican activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. |
| | Howard | Zinn | American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. |
| | Allen C. | Thompson | Served in the Mississippi House of Rep. and as mayor of Jackson. |
| | Theodore H. | White | American political journalist and historian. |
| | R. Schwerner | Bender | Civil rights activist and lawyer. |
| | J. Edgar | Hoover | The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. |
| | Joseph | McCarthy | American lawyer served as U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. |
| | Frank | Church | American lawyer served as a United States Senator from Idaho. |
| | Stanley | Levison | Jewish attorney who became King's adviser. |
| | Wiliam C. | Sullivan | Served as FBI assistant director. |
| | James E. | Jackson Jr. | The leader of the Communist Party USA for many years. |
| | Hubert | Humphrey | 38th Vice President of the United States. |
| | George E. | Reedy | White House Press Secretary. |
| | Walter | Jenkins | American political aide to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
| | Cartha | DeLoach | Deputy associate director of the FBI of the United States. |
| | Richard | Russell Jr. | 66th Governor of Georgia before serving in the U. S. Senate. |
| | David | Lawrence | 37th Governor of Pennsylvania. |
| | Fannie Lou | Hamer | American civil rights activist. |
| | James | Eastland | American politician who served as U.S. senator from Mississippi. |
| | John C. | Stennis | American politician who served as U.S. Senator from Mississippi. |
| | Rev. Jeff | Sunny | A pastor. |
| | John | Connally | 39th Governor of Texas. |
| | Buford | Ellington | American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee. |
| | Joseph L. | Rauh Jr. | One of the U.S.' foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers. |
| | Walter | Reuther | American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist. |
| | Nelson | Rockefeller | 41st Vice Pres. of U.S. and four-term governor of New York. |
| | Jackie | Robinson | First Black baseball player to play in the American major league. |
| 6 | | | I'm Going To Die Here |
| | Robert | Coles | American author, child psychiatrist, professor at Harvard Univ. |
| | Ahmed Sékou | Touré | The first President of Guinea. |
| | Amelia B. | Robinson | The leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, |
| | Jim | Clark | A sheriff |
| | C. T. | Vivian | American writer and activist. |
| | George L. | Rockwell | American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party. |
| | Jimmy George | Robinson | Klansmen from the Dallas suburb of Garland. |
| | Chris | Heinz | A former mayor of Selma. |
| | Jimmie Lee | Jackson | African American veteran and civil rights activist. |
| | Richard | Valeriani | An NBC reporter. |
| | Albert | Turner | American civil rights activist and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. |
| | Jack | Minnis | The founder and director of opposition research for the SNCC. |
| | Taylor | Branch | American author and historian. |
| | Richard | Hofstadter | American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. |
| | Wendell | Phillips | American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator. |
| | Henry | Knox | Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War. |
| | Al | Rosen | Assistant FBI director. |
| | John | Cloud | Professor in the NSA Dept. of the U.S. Naval War College. |
| | William | James | American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist. |
| | Charles | Mauldin | One of the civil rights marchers. |
| | Joseph M. | Conley | FBI Special Agent. |
| | Willie C. | Robertson | An SNCC activist. |
| | Jeanette | Howard | A 16th year-old girl had been kicked in the head by a horse. |
| | Margaret Clay | Brooks | A woman who was injured during Alabama attacked. |
| | Dr. Isabel | Dumont | Lewis' physician. |
| | George B. | Leonard | American writer, editor, and educator. |
| | Daniel | Doyle | One of FBI special agents. |
| | John H. | Lupton | One of FBI special agents. |
| | James | Reeb | American activist and minister. |
| | Richard | Goodwin | American writer and presidential advisor. |
| | Sullivan | Jackson | A Selma dentist. |
| | Phyllis | Cunningham | A nurse who was with SNCC. |
| | Viola | Liuzzo | American civil rights activist. |
| | Paul | Dietrich | A Freedom Rider. |
| 7 | | | The Country Don't Run On Love |
| | Jack | Valenti | American political advisor and lobbyist. |
| | Vincent | Harding | African-American historian and theologian. |
| | Frantz | Fanon | French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher. |
| | Jean-Paul | Sartre | French philosopher, novelist, screenwriter, political activist. |
| | James | Forman | American civil rights leader; |
| | Peniel E. | Joseph | A historian. |
| | Charles V. | Hamilton | A political scientist, civil rights leader. |
| | Clarissa S. | Williams | Leader in the LDS church. |
| | Bernard | Weinraub | American journalist, playwright. |
| | Fay Bellamy | Powell | African-American civil rights activist. |
| | Clayborne | Carson | American historian. |
| | James | Meredith | American civil rights movement figure, writer, political adviser. |
| | Willie | Ricks | Civil rights activist and community organizer. |
| | Frank | McGee | American television journalist. |
| | Paul | Good | A writer. |
| | Dela | Mae | Lewis' cousin. |
| | Xernona | Clayton | American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. |
| | Lillian | Miles | Lewis' wife. |
| | John-Miles | Lewis | Lillian and Lewis' adopted son. |
| | Walter | Sheridan | US federal investigator. |
| | R. W. | Apple Jr. | An associate editor at The New York Times. |
| | Evan | Thomas | American journalist, historian, and author. |
| | Ethel | Kennedy | Robert Kennedy's wife. |
| Epi | | | Against The Rulers Of The Darkness |
| | Jimmy | Carter | 39th U.S. President. |
| | Ronald | Reagan | 40th President of the United States. |
| | Bill | Clinton | 42nd President of the United States. |
| | George W. | Bush | 43rd President of the United States. |
| | Barack | Obama | 44th President of the United States. |
| | Donald | Trump | 45th President of the United States. |
| | Laura | Bush | Former First Lady of the United States. |
| | Ibram X. | Kendi | American author and historian. |
| | Colson | Whitehead | American novelist. |
| | George | Floyd | African American man killed during an arrest. |
| | Muriel | Bowser | Served as the eighth mayor of the District of Columbia. |
| | Sean | Wilentz | American historian, academic, educator, and writer. |
| | Hillary | Clinton | American politician. |
| | Marian Wright | Edelman | American children's rights activist. |
| | Otis | Moss Jr. | American pastor, theologian, speaker, author, and activist. |
