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22. Dez. 2014 · He was sent to the Colored Waifs Home, an institution for troubled and orphaned children, and was listed as a new arrival with six other boys on October 21. In total, there were 77 boys at the ...
14. Mai 2024 · At six he attended the Fisk School for Boys, a school that accepted black children in the racially segregated system of New Orleans. At the age of 6, Armstrong lived with his mother and sister and worked for the Karnoffskys, a family of Lithuanian Jews, at their home. He would help their two sons, Morris and Alex, collect "rags and bones" and ...
12. Apr. 2018 · The Colored Waif's Home For Boys was a juvenile detention school on the outskirts of New Orleans. It’s also where Louis Armstrong was sent for two years after firing a pistol into the air on New ...
Louis Armstrong. (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) Louis Armstrong was born in a poor section of New Orleans on August 4, 1901. He was raised primarily by his mother and attended the Fisk School for Boys where he was first exposed to music before he dropped out at age 11 to join a quartet of boys who sang on street corners for money.
31. Aug. 2010 · During the epilogue of “Louis,” an energetic but muddled new silent film that played at the Apollo Theater on Monday night, a wide-eyed Louis Armstrong arrives at the Colored Waif’s Home for ...
Louis Armstrong. At the age of 15 he began working as a professional musician in New Orleans and was mentored by Bunk Johnson, King Oliver and Kid Ory. These were all top New Orleans musicians of the era. When he was 18 he began playing on riverboats and began to learn to read music. In 1920 he moved to Chicago, Illinois and his career began to ...
3. März 2014 · On Dec. 31 of that year, Armstrong was arrested for shooting his stepfather's gun in celebration of the New Year and was sent to the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys, located at 301 City Park Ave. The ...
