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