Overview

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.

Top Cast

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers