Cast and Crew of 4 Little Girls

Cast of
4 Little Girls

About 4 Little Girls

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

Full Cast of 4 Little Girls

Maxine McNair
plays Self - Mother of Denise McNair

Chris McNair
plays Self - Father of Denise McNair

Helen Pegues
plays Self - Denise's Aunt

Queen Nunn
plays Self - Neighbor of Denise McNair

Arthur Hanes Jr.
plays Self - Defense Attorney for Bob Chambliss

Howell Raines
plays Self - New York Times Editor

Harold McNair
plays Self - Denise's Uncle

Carole C. Smitherman
plays Self - Denise's Childhood Friend

Wamo Reed Robertson
plays Self - Carole's Aunt

Dianne Braddock
plays Self - Carole's Sister

Carolyn Lee Brown
plays Self - Carole's Childhood Friend

Alpha Robertson
plays Self - Mother of Carole Robertson

Wyatt Tee Walker
plays Self - Former Executive Director of SCLC

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
plays Self - Pres. of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Florence Terrell
plays Self - School Teacher

Gwendolyn White
plays Self - School Teacher

Doris Lockhart
plays Self - Neighbor of Cynthia Wesley

Gerald Colbert
plays Self - Cynthia's Childhood Neighbor

Freeman Hrabowski III
plays Self - Cynthia's Childhood Friend

Shirley Wesley King
plays Self - Cynthia's Sister

Carolyn M. McKinstry
plays Self - Cynthia's Childhood Friend

David J. Vann
plays Self - Former Mayor of Birmingham

Bill Baxley
plays Self - Former Attorney General of Alabama

Albert Boutwell
plays Self - Former Mayor of Birmingham (archive footage)

Andrew Young
plays Self - SCLC

Taylor Branch
plays Self - Author

Nadean S. Williams
plays Self - Music Teacher

Janie Gaines
plays Self - Addie Mae's Sister

Rhonda Nunn Thomas
plays Self - Denise's Childhood Friend

James Bevel
plays Self - SCLC

Tommy Wrenn
plays Self - SCLC

George Wallace
plays Self

Nicholas Katzenbach
plays Self - Former US Attorney General

Billie Harris
plays Self - Funeral Home Director

Ricky Powell
plays Self - Denise's Childhood Friend

Lillie Brown
plays Self - SCLC

Ossie Davis
plays Self - Actor and Playwright

Mahalia Jackson
plays Self - During March on Washington (archive footage)

Barbara Nunn
plays Self - Denise's Childhood Friend

John Cross
plays Self - Former Pastor of 16th St. Baptist Church

Barbara Cross
plays Self - Daughter of Reverend Cross

Morris Marshall
plays Self - 16th Street Baptist Church Member

Junie Collins
plays Self - Addie Mae's Sister

Diane Nash
plays Self - SCLC

Faye Davis
plays Self - Carole's Childhood Friend

Coretta Scott King
plays Self

Walter Cronkite
plays Self - Special Correspondent CBS News

Bill Cosby
plays Self - Educator

Jesse Jackson
plays Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

Reggie White
plays Self - Green Bay Packers

Ralph Abernathy
plays Self - with Martin Luther King (archive footage) (uncredited)

David Brinkley
plays Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)

Addie Mae Collins
plays Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited)

James Farmer
plays Self - with Freedom Riders (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Luther King Jr.
plays Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Spike Lee
plays Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Spike Lee as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Geor...

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Denise McNair
plays Self (at family gathering) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cynthia Wesley
plays Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carole Rosamond Robertson
plays Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited)


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