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