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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.
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.
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.
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, [14] a family of Lithuanian Jews , at their home .
On October 31, 1965, Louis “Pops” (or “Satchmo”) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. As a boy, he had busked on street corners. At twelve, he marched in parades for the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he was given his first cornet.
21 dic 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.
18 ago 2010 · Inside Colored Waifs Home (later Milne Boys Home), New Orleans. Where Louis Armstrong was locked up as a boy. 1,948 views.
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