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