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