| | | | Part 1 |
| 1 | Erica | Williams | One of Civil's patients. India's older sister. |
| | India | Williams | Civil's patient who mistakenly took Depo Provera. |
| | Anne | | Civil's daughter. |
| | Valera | Brison | A newly hired nurse. Civil's workmate. Aka: Val. |
| | Alicia | Downs | A newly hired nurse. Civil's workmate. |
| | Linda | Seager | The nurse supervisor. Civil's boss. |
| | Civil | Townsend | Narrator and Protagonist. |
| | Frantz | Fanon | A French West Indian psychologist. |
| | Baldwin | | One of the Black's intellectual people. |
| | Dubois | | One of the Black's intellectual people. |
| | Washington | | One of the Black's intellectual people. |
| | Angela | Davis | An American political activist. |
| | Samuel | Davis Jr. | An American singer. |
| | Prof. | Boyd | One of Civil's former professors. |
| | Mckinney | | One of Civil's former professors. |
| 3 | Tyrell | Ralsey | The father of Civil's baby. Civil's best friend. |
| | Glenda | | Dr. Townsend's assistant. |
| | Henry | Townsend | Civil's father. A doctor. |
| 4 | Martin | Luther-King Jr. | A pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. |
| | Constance | Williams | Deceased. Erica and India's mother. |
| | Patricia | Williams | Erica and India's grandmother. |
| | Mace | Williams | Erica and India's father. |
| 5 | Dr. | James | One of the doctors. |
| | Dr. | Chegley | One of the doctors. |
| | Irene | | The waitress. |
| 6 | Mrs. | Livingston | The Montgomery planning agent. |
| 7 | Gertie | Sims | One of Civil's patients. India's older sister. |
| | Daisy | Sims | Gertie's mother. |
| | Carolyn | Sims | Gertie's sister. |
| | Frank | Adair | Mr. Williams's boss |
| 9 | June | Townsend | Civil's mother. |
| 10 | Jim | Ralsey | Ty's father. |
| | Donna | Ralsey | Ty's mother. |
| | Dr. | Barnes | The college president. Aka: Dr. Baily. |
| 11 | Miss | Pope | The University librarian. |
| | Jo Ann | Robinson | An Activist. |
| | Mary Fair | Burks | An Activist. |
| | Amiri | Baraka | The organizer of Congress of African People. |
| | Shirley | Chisholm | The congresswoman. |
| | Eunice | Rivers | A Tuskegee graduate. |
| | Bill | Jenkins | A black statistician. |
| 12 | Medgar | Evers | Murdered. |
| | Nina | Simone | A black singer. |
| | Fred | Shuttlesworth | A civil rights activist. |
| | Fannie Lou | Hamer | An American activist. |
| 13 | Lori | | The nurse-receptionist. |
| | Mary | | One of the girls who'd taken Depo Provera. |
| | Harold | Upjohn | The head doctor at the pharmaceutical company. |
| 14 | Rosalind | | Civil's aunt. June's sister. |
| | Al | Jackson Jr. | Booker T's drummer. |
| | Booker T. | Washington | A singer. |
| 15 | Philips | | Employer of Mace's father. |
| | Mrs. | Lacey | Mace's landlady. |
| 16 | Vince | | Ty's frat brother. |
| | Dr. | Merle | India's doctor. |
| 19 | Dwanna | Ralsey | Ty's daughter. |
| | Tyler | Ralsey Jr. | Ty's son. |
| 20 | Frida | | One of Civil's patients. |
| | | | Part 2 |
| 23 | Mrs. | Cooper | One of the oldest church members. |
| | Louis | Feldman | Mrs. Ralsey's colleague. India's lawyer. Aka: Lou. |
| 25 | Nellie | | Pat's cousin. |
| | Leotis | | Nellie's husband. |
| | Ricky | | One of Mace's cousins. |
| | Patsy | | One of Mace's cousins. |
| | Doe | | One of Mace's cousins. |
| 26 | Dina | | Ricky's wife. |
| | Tim | | Constance's brother. Mace's brother-in-law. |
| 27 | LaTarsha | | The nun who runs India's school. |
| | George | Wallace | A governor. |
| 28 | Ted | Kennedy | The Senator who helped India and Erica. |
| 30 | Howard | Baker | One of the Senators. |
| | Barry | Goldwater | One of the Senators. |
| | Strom | Thurmond | One of the Senators. |
| | Adlai | Stevenson III | One of the Senators. |
| | John | Sparkman | Alabama Senator. |
| | Dinesha | | Erica's friend. |
| | John | Kennedy | The former U.S. President. |
| 33 | Mr. | Singh | A café owner. |
| | Mrs. | Singh | Mr. Singh's wife. |
| | Fiona | | One of Civil's co-nurses. |
| | Margaret | | One of Civil's co-nurses. |
| | Liz | | One of Civil's co-nurses. |
| | Gina | | One of Civil's co-nurses. |
| | Mrs. | Parr | Mrs. Seager's newly hired nurse. |
| 34 | Frank | Johnson | The head of the federal court in the middle district of Alabama. |
| | Erica | Blount | The judge-in-charge. |
| 36 | Eugenia | Wooten | Seager's daughter. |
| | | | Part 3 |
| 38 | Caspar | Weinberger | The secretary of HEW. |
| | Alvin | Arnett | The director of Office of Economic Opportunity. |
| 39 | Ernest | Withers | The journalist photographer. |
| 40 | Lance | Paasch | Former branch chief of the family planning division. |
| | Anthony | Marcus | The director of HEW. |
| | | | HEW - Department of Education Health Welfare. |
| | | Nixon | The former U.S. President. |
| 41 | Maddox | | Lou's law professor at Auburn. |
| | Walter | Rosenstein | The director of the health research group. |
| | Mr. | Peters | The government lawyer. |
| | Barbara | Robard | Director of research at the Health Policy Advisor Center. |
| 42 | Mabel | Turner | Civil's next-door neighbor. |
| 43 | Robinson | | The current Mayor. |
| 45 | Tonya | | One of Erica's friends. |
| 46 | Hatch | | The police officer. |
| 48 | Jenna | Feldman | Lou's wife. |
| 51 | Mother | Cooper | The mother nun at Civil's church. |
| | Mr. | Jones | Civil's acquaintance. |
| | Dena | | Civil's acquaintance from the hardware store. |
