| Boyd |
Alexander | Reed's favourite player. |
| Maya |
Angelou | American poet and civil rights activist. |
| Ahmaud |
Arbery | Victim of racial violence while jogging. |
| James |
Baldwin | American writer and social critic. |
| John |
Bingham | Police officer who asked Reed for his I.D. |
| Sandra |
Bland | Died in police custody. |
| Officer |
Colvin | Rob Smalls's partner. |
| Michelle |
Cusseaux | Black transgender woman killed by police. |
| Viola |
Desmond | Canadian civil rights activist. |
| Sergeant |
Douglas | Bingham's boss. |
| Frederick |
Douglass | American abolitionist, orator, and writer. |
| George |
Floyd | Victim of police brutality in 2020. |
| Eric |
Garner | Victim of police chokehold. |
| Officer |
Greene | One of Douglas's men. |
| Fannie Lou |
Hamer | American civil rights and voting rights activist. |
| Ketanji Brown |
Jackson | Judge idolised by Olive. |
| Officer |
James | One of Douglas's men. |
| Officer |
Jefferies | Bingham's partner. |
| John |
Kennedy | U.S. President during Cold War. |
| Martin Luther |
King Jr. | Civil rights leader. |
| Officer |
Lewis | One of Douglas's men. |
| Abraham |
Lincoln | U.S. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| Thurgood |
Marshall | U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights lawyer. |
| Natasha |
McKenna | Trans woman who died in police custody. |
| Pauli |
Murray | U.S. civil rights activist and the "third officer". |
| Rosa |
Parks | Civil rights activist. |
| Branch |
Rickey | Baseball executive and civil rights pioneer. |
| Rob |
Smalls | First responder to Olive's call. |
| Breonna |
Taylor | Killed by police in Louisville. |
| Reed |
| Protagonist. |
| Olive |
| Reed's sister. |
| Reed's dad |
| public defender in Brooklyn. |
| |
| Part 2 begins |
| Lilian |
| Café cashier. |
| Freddy |
| North Star Café manager. |
| Karen |
| Woman accusing Olive of stealing her phone. |
| The Operator |
| 911 operator. |
