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