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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.
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NBC Studios, Lynda Obst Productions
Cast
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Josh Hamilton
Michael Herlihy
J
Julia Stiles
Katie Herlihy
J
Jerry O'Connell
Brian Herlihy
J
Jeremy Sisto
Kenny Klein
J
Jordana Brewster
Sarah Weinstock
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Leonard Roberts
Emmet Taylor
B
Bill Smitrovich
Bill Herlihy
A
Annie Corley
Mary Herlihy
D
Donovan Leitch
Neal Reynolds
D
David Alan Grier
Fred Hampton
C
Charles S. Dutton
Reverend Willie Taylor
C
Cliff Gorman
Father Daniel Berrigan
M
Marc Blucas
Buddy Wells
J
Jenna Byrne
Melissa
C
Carnie Wilson
Mama Earth
J
John C. Meier
Cop #3
D
David Denman
SDS Radical
R
Ronald William Lawrence
Civil Rights Leader #1
K
Kimberly Scott
Althea Taylor
M
Monti Sharp
Civil Rights Leader #2
