Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

• Tim ReidDirector
• Paul W. CooperScreenplay

• Al Freeman Jr.Poppa
• Phylicia RashādMa Ponk
• Paula KellyMa Pearl
• Salli Richardson-WhitfieldMiss Alice (as Salli Richardson)
• Anna Maria HorsfordMiss Annie
• Bernie CaseyMr. Walter
• Isaac HayesPreacher Hurn
• Ray JCliff (12 Yrs.) (as Willis Norwood Jr.)
• Polly BergenMiss Maybry
• Taj MahalMr. Will
• LeonUncle Melvin
• Richard RoundtreeCleve