Commemorating Black History Month with images of a few legends and pioneers.
(Name appears as you place the cursor on the image.)
Scatman Crothers
Hall Johnson
William Greaves
Cicely Tyson
Mahalia Jackson
Juanita Moore
Paul Robeson
Lillian Randolph
Spencer Williams
Cab Calloway
Louis Armstrong
Billy Eckstine
Nichelle Nichols
Oscar Micheaux
Florence Mills
Roxie Roker
Sidney Poitier
Dooley Wilson as Sam in CASABLANCA
Fayard Nicholas
Alvin Childress
Dorothy Dandridge
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson
Richard Pryor
The Nicholas Brothers
Diahann Carroll as TV’s Julia
Hazel Scott
Eddie Anderson
Billie Thomas
Eartha Kitt
Brock Peters
Jackie Robinson
Harold Nicholas
Etta Moten Barnett
Lincoln Perry
Celia Cruz
Ossie Davis
William Walker
Diahann Carroll
Pam Grier
Josephine Baker
Matthew Beard
Marian Anderson
Butterfly McQueen
Mabel Lee
Nat King Cole
Peral Bailey
Ella Fitzgerald
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson
James Earl Jones
Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller
Duke Ellington
Canada Lee
Ruby Dandridge
Louis Armstrong
Nina Mae McKinney
Vivian Dandridge
Hattie McDaniel
Gordon Parks
Rupert Crosse
Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte
George Walker and Bert Williams
Ruby Dee
Moms Mabley
Ethel Waters
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Chick Webb
Della Reese
Bert Williams
Louise Beavers
Richard Roundtree
Clarence Muse
Pearl Bailey
Amanda Randolph
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Hattie McDaniel
What a grand gallery of talented performers. Many of favorites.
Just the thought rattles my cage. Terrific gallery of players. When time permits please consider additions of
James Edwards, Yaphet Kotto and Raymond St. Jacques to begin the second tier of which there will be many.
Beautiful!!!
Wow! This is breathtaking. I love it.