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