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Há 6 dias · 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.
The Colored Waifs Home evolved into the Milne Boys Home in Gentilly, which employed Arthur Neville, Sr., father of the Neville Brothers, as a counselor. In 2017 the facility morphed into the NORD Milne NOLA FOR LIFE Center, a multi-purpose center including programming aimed at reducing gun violence among young people.
Burial place. Flushing Cemetery. Other names. Satchmo. Pops. Louie. Education. Colored Waif's Home for Boys, Fisk School for Boys. Occupations. Musician. singer.
14 de fev. de 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.
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!
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 on New ...
21 de dez. 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.
