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24 de jun. de 2024 · 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.
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.
21 de dic. de 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.
12 de abr. de 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...
The earliest known photo of Armstrong, circa 1912, with the Waif's Home Band. Louis is top middle. In honor of Louis Armstrong's birthday, we bring you the story of his stint in the Colored Waif's Home for Boys and his first Cornet. Listen Live!
19 de mar. de 2006 · Before Milne was built in the 1930's, part of it was called the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, the institution where Armstrong was incarcerated at age 11 after firing a pistol to celebrate...
