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