Trivia

Olivia Cole (Maggie Rogers) is less than a year older than Leslie Uggams, who played the role of her adult daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks. In Roots (1977), Leslie Uggams played Oliva Cole's mother-in-law.

Eileen Heckart played Eleanor Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980).

Andrew Duggan played Dwight David Eisenhower in J. Edgar Hoover (1987).

The miniseries includes eight Oscar winners: Celeste Holm, Eileen Heckart, Estelle Parsons, George Kennedy, Lee Grant, Kim Hunter, Cloris Leachman and Louis Gossett Jr.; and six Oscar nominees: Victor Buono, Julie Harris, Jan Sterling, Paul Winfield, Robert Vaughn and Barbara Barrie.