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