Louis Armstrong
Posted December 9, 2010
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What impact did louis armstrong make on the black community?
Please someone help me with a full detail paragraphexplanationn.
Please watch this video of him from 1932:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CcAD_seww
As you can see, the video is full of clichés concerning African-Americans. Particularly Louis Armstrong's dress is at least from today's point of view not acceptable. One can ask why Louis accepted this.
Louis Armstrong was at least in the beginning of his career quite a apolitical person. Besides that, he loved to play also with white people which was quite unusual in those days. He played with my idol Bix Beiderbecke as well. I would say, he cared much more about the music, wanted to please, didn't fight against the prejudices and so on.
Whatever the case, where some saw a gregarious and outgoing personality, others saw someone trying too hard to appeal to white audiences and essentially becoming a minstrel caricature. Some musicians criticized Armstrong for playing in front of segregated audiences, and for not taking a strong enough stand in the civil rights movement suggesting that he was an Uncle Tom. Billie Holiday countered, however, "Of course Pops toms, but he toms from the heart."
Later in his career, Armstrong, in fact, was a major financial supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists, but mostly preferred to work quietly behind the scenes, not mixing his politics with his work as an entertainer. The few exceptions made it more effective when he did speak out. Armstrong's criticism of President Eisenhower, calling him "two-faced" and "gutless" because of his inaction during the conflict over school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 made national news. As a protest, Armstrong canceled a planned tour of the Soviet Union on behalf of the State Department saying "The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell" and that he could not represent his government abroad when it was in conflict with its own people.
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