Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in Back of Town, New Orleans – a poor neighborhood and his father abandoned the family when he was an infant. Then his mother left him to live with his grandmother and uncle. Later he moved back with his mother, a prostitute, and relatives and saw his father only in parades. He had a rough beginning and was taken in by a Jewish family, the Karnofskys, who had…