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