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4 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.
4 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. Armstrong lived with his mother and sister during this time and worked for the Karnoffskys.
12 giu 2024 · The opening of the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys that year provided another option. According to a 2016 JAZZIZ article, the Colored Branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children opened the reform school in an abandoned building that had been designed for French orphans in the 1830s.
15 giu 2024 · He was sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, where he learned to play the cornet and fell in love with music. He was in the home until he was 14.
