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6 giorni fa · 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.
27 mag 2024 · As a result, Armstrong was sent to the Colored Waif‘s Home for Boys, a reform school located at the corner of Perdido and South Salcedo streets. The Colored Waif‘s Home, which operated from 1906 to 1938, housed African American male juvenile offenders and provided them with education, vocational training, and discipline.
5 giorni fa · 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.
22 mag 2024 · At age 12, Armstrong was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for recalcitrant black boys, and that changed his life. At the "home," he found mentors, father figures and love, and he...
26 mag 2024 · At age twelve, Armstrong was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for recalcitrant Black boys, and that changed his life. At the “home,” he found mentors, father figures, and love, and he discovered music.
16 mag 2024 · At age 12, Armstrong was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for recalcitrant Black boys, and that changed his life. At the “home,” he found mentors, father-figures and love, and he discovered music.
15 mag 2024 · At age twelve, Armstrong was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for recalcitrant Black boys, and that changed his life. At the “home,” he found mentors, father-figures, and love, and he ...
