Five on the Black Hand Side

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

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Clarice TaylorMrs. Brooks

Leonard JacksonMr. Brooks

Virginia CapersRuby

Glynn TurmanGideon

Dick Anthony WilliamsPreston

Carl FranklinMarvin

Ja'net DuBoisStormy Monday

D'Urville MartinBooker T.