Commemorating Black History Month with images of a few legends and pioneers.
(Name appears as you place the cursor on the image.)
Scatman Crothers
Eartha Kitt
Amanda Randolph
Oscar Micheaux
Spencer Williams
George Walker and Bert Williams
Alvin Childress
Paul Robeson
Cab Calloway
Harold Nicholas
Cicely Tyson
James Earl Jones
Nina Mae McKinney
Louise Beavers
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson
Pam Grier
Peral Bailey
Mabel Lee
Marian Anderson
Richard Pryor
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel
Billie Thomas
Della Reese
Ella Fitzgerald
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dandridge
Celia Cruz
Vivian Dandridge
Nat King Cole
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Etta Moten Barnett
Roxie Roker
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Dorothy Dandridge
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson
Eddie Anderson
Hall Johnson
Dooley Wilson as Sam in CASABLANCA
Ossie Davis
Moms Mabley
William Greaves
Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte
Jackie Robinson
Diahann Carroll as TV’s Julia
Lillian Randolph
Florence Mills
Diahann Carroll
Billy Eckstine
Fayard Nicholas
Brock Peters
Butterfly McQueen
Rupert Crosse
Matthew Beard
Pearl Bailey
Louis Armstrong
Josephine Baker
Canada Lee
Richard Roundtree
Juanita Moore
Nichelle Nichols
Bert Williams
Sidney Poitier
Lincoln Perry
Clarence Muse
Chick Webb
Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller
The Nicholas Brothers
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ethel Waters
Gordon Parks
Hazel Scott
Mahalia Jackson
William Walker
Once upon a screen... 
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.