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Vor 5 Tagen · by Matt Micucci. 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.
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July 6, 1971 (aged 69) New York City, U.S. Burial place. Flushing Cemetery. Other names. Satchmo. Pops. Louie. Education. Colored Waif's Home for Boys, Fisk School for Boys. Occupations. Musician. singer.
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.
22. Dez. 2014 · Karst tells the story of documents from the Colored Waifs Home that ended up in the hands of one Allen Kimble. The documents including information about a previously unknown Armstrong arrest in 1910. That alone was enough of a jaw-dropper but Karst dug deeper and found TWO more mentions of Armstrong in New Orleans newspapers of 1910 and 1913 ...
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. In 1931, when he had become a well known musician throughout the world, he came back to visit the place where he ...
31. Jan. 2013 · And it was outside its doors, on New Year’s Eve in 1912, that Armstrong celebrated by firing a pistol into the air—an event that led to his arrest and confinement in the Colored Waif’s Home ...
