Continuing our coverage of Black History Month, BroadwayBox brings you a preview of some of the 300 rare photos that appear in Stewart F. Lane’s Black Broadway: African Americans on The Great White Way. The new book by the six-time Tony winner chronicles the journey of black theatre in America, alongside a running timeline of African-American history, and celebrates the performers, playwrights, songwriters, directors, choreographers and designers who changed theatre throughout America and the world. Scroll on to marvel at 20 rare photos that appear in the book, and pick up your edition of Black Broadway: African Americans on The Great White Way to see all 300.

Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu!

Hinton Battle, Ted Ross, Tiger Haynes and Stephanie Mills in The Wiz

James Earl Jones in Othello

LaChanze in Once on This Island

Bill Bojangles Robinson

Pearl Bailey in Hello, Dolly!

Porgy and Bess

Lena Horne in Jamaica

Gregory Hines and Judith Jamison in Sophisticated Ladies

Lillian Hayman and Leslie Uggams in Hallelujah, Baby!

Phylicia Rashad in Into the Woods

Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, Debbie Allen, Alan Weeks and Zoe Walker in Ain’t Misbehavin’

Sammy Davis, Jr. in Golden Boy

Whoopi Goldberg in her self-titled solo show.

Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun

Ossie Davis, Helen Martin, Godfrey Cambridge, Ruby Dee, Beah Richards and Sorrell Booke in Purlie Victorious

Paul Robeson in Othello

Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Loretta Devine in Dreamgirls

Leslie Uggams in Hallelujah, Baby!

Ben Vereen in Pippin