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