The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
Josh Hamilton
Julia Stiles
Jerry O'Connell
Jeremy Sisto
Jordana Brewster
Leonard Roberts
Bill Smitrovich
Annie Corley
Donovan Leitch
David Alan Grier
Charles S. Dutton
Cliff Gorman
April Mills
Marc Blucas
Jenna Byrne
Carnie Wilson
John C. Meier
David Denman
Ronald William Lawrence
Kimberly Scott
Monti Sharp
Chonique Sneed
Sara Van Horn
Brian Donovan
Raynor Scheine
Gibbs Tolsdorf
James Arone
David Paul Needles
David Tom
Lauren Birkell
Grant Gelt
Lynn Tufeld
Ping Wu
Jeremiah Birkett
Nigel Thatch
Elisabeth Röhm
Mushond Lee
Michael Maize
Hugh Ross
Miranda Bailey
Steve Eastin
Roger Hampton
Tim Reinhard
Michael Harney
Sean Hennigan
Brian Klugman
Heath Lourwood
Grant Mathis
Clay Wilcox
Andrew Woodworth
Lorin McCraley
Ryan Cutrona
James DeBello
Rosanna Arquette
Steven Boe
Craig Calman
Johan-Carl Nowack
Charles Wheat
Philip Cordaro
Carl E. Nelson
James E. Treloar
Stan Garner
Michael Kaufman
Desiree Paterson
Jennifer Bauerle
Oded Gross
Nicky Merchant
Jason Nesmith
Mike Williams
Ryan Chism
James Michael Marshall
William Barillaro
Terrance Ellis
John H. Freeland Jr.
Barbara Roberts
Danny Rogers
Si Paciorek
Bix Barnaba
Dana Smith
Gregory Storm
Mark Leahy
Bill Willens
Austin Marriott
Benjamin Marriott
Shane Barach
Mitch Gibney
Wavy Gravy
Hannah Whelan
Lou Simon
James Furlong
Eli Jones
Anthony Jordan
Marcus Le Bov
Mindy Miller
Michael Emanuel