| Ralph | Abernathy | American activist. |
| Jamil A. | Al-Amin | 5th chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. |
| Louis | Armstrong | American trumpeter. |
| Count | Bassie | American jazz pianist. |
| Buford | Brinlee | Cotton Malone's friend. |
| Stokely | Carmichael | A political activist. |
| Fidel | Castro | Former prime minister of Cuba. |
| Ray | Charles | American singer-songwriter. |
| Frank | Church | Former member of the US senate. |
| Ramsey | Clark | American lawyer. |
| Bill | Clinton | 42nd US president. |
| Danny | Daniels | American choreographer. |
| Medgar | Evers | American civil rights activist. |
| Henry | Flagler | American industrialist. |
| Benjamin | Foster | Coleen's father. Aka: Ben. |
| Aretha | Franklin | American singer-songwriter. |
| Mark | Freeman | A psychologist. |
| Eric S. | Galt | The name used by James Earl Ray while he was in Mexico. |
| Cecilia | Heath | Bruce Lael's ex-wife. Aka Cie. |
| Jimmy | Hoffa | American labor leader. |
| John Edgar | Hoover | Former director of the FBl. |
| Jesse | Jackson | American civil rights activist. |
| James | Jansen | An FBl agent. |
| Lyndon B. | Johnson | 36th US president. |
| Solomon | Jones | King's driver. |
| Loyd | Jowers | A restaurant owner. |
| John F. | Kennedy | 35th US president. |
| Coretta | King | Martin Luther King's wife. |
| Martin Luther | King Jr. | American Baptist minister and activist. |
| Bruce | Lael | Benjamin Foster's acquaintance. |
| Jimmy | Lee Jackson | African-American veteran and civil rights activist. |
| Stanley | Levison | American businessman who became an activist. |
| Abraham | Lincoln | 16th US president. |
| Viola | Liuzzio | Civil rights activist. |
| Juan | Lopez Valdez | Former asset of both the FBl and the ClA. |
| Harold Earl | Malone | An agent for the Justice department. Aka: Cotton Malone. |
| Eugene | McCarthy | Former US senator. |
| Manuela | Medrano | Eric's friend. |
| Samuel | Mudd | American physician. |
| Elijah | Muhammed | A political leader. |
| Stephanie | Nelle | Worked at the Justice department. |
| Barack | Obama | 44th US president. |
| Tom | Oliver | A retired deputy director of the FBl. |
| Lee Harvey | Oswald | The man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. |
| Rosa | Parks | American activist. |
| Coleen | Perry | A cop. |
| Nate | Perry | Coleen's husband. |
| James Earl | Ray | American convicted felon. Aka: Raoul. |
| Otis | Redding | American singer-songwriter. |
| James | Reeb | American minister. |
| Jack | Ruby | The man who killed Oswald. |
| Jean | Seberg | American actress. |
| Dan | Veddern | FBl administrator. |
| George | Wallace | Former governor of Alabama. |
| Bob | Weiler | Cotton Malone's friend. |
| Sue | Weiler | Bob's wife. |
| Roy | Wilkins | An activist. |
| Hosea | Williams | American civil rights leader. |
| Andrew | Young | Former US ambassador of the United Nations. |
| Alfred Daniel | | One of Christina's brothers. |
| Christina | | The first-born child of an African-American couple. |
| Gandhi | | An Indian lawyer. |
| Gary | | Cotton Malone's son. |
| Michael | | One of Christina's brothers. |
| Pam | | Cotton Malone's wife. |
| Pharaoh | | A ruler or monarch of ancient Egypt. |
| Rona | | Buford's wife. |
