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29. Mai 2024 · On January 1, 1913, Louis Armstrong attended a New Year’s Eve parade and shot six blanks from his stepfather’s .38 revolver. A policeman arrested him on the spot. Later that day, Judge Andrew Wilson sentenced the young boy to the Colored Waif’s Home, a reform school on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training at the Colored Waifs Home for boys, a regrettably named juvenile detention facility where a court sent him after he fired a pistol in the air on New Year’s Eve of 1912.
At the age of six, Armstrong started attending the Fisk School for Boys, a school that accepted black children in the racially segregated school system of New Orleans. During this time, Armstrong lived with his mother and sister and worked for the Karnoffskys, a family of Lithuanian Jews, at their home. Armstrong helped their two ...
14. Feb. 2024 · He was sent to the “Colored Waif’s Home for Boys,” a segregated reform school in New Orleans. Conditions at the Home were dire, and the head of its music program, Peter Davis, took Armstrong under his wing. Davis taught him how to properly play the cornet, and Armstrong later led the Waif’s Home Brass Band.
21. Dez. 2021 · Colored Waifs Home for Boys. As a young boy, Louis Armstrong was sent to a home for juvenile delinquents. It was at this home where he first learned how to play the bugle and cornet under the instruction of Peter Davis.
Louis Armstrong, in the middle of the back row, with the band at the Colored Waifs Home not long after he left the Fisk School. Courtesy of the University of New Orleans. Left to right: a young Louis Armstrong, his mother Mary (called Mayann), and his sister Beatrice.
19. März 2006 · Before Milne was built in the 1930's, part of it was called the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, the institution where Armstrong was incarcerated at age 11 after firing a pistol to celebrate...
