Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

• Tomorrow Entertainment
• Paul Benjamin
• Diahann Carroll
• Ruby Dee
• Roger E. Mosley
• Esther Rolle
• Madge Sinclair
• Sonny Jim Gaines
• Art Evans