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