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How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star

1160.195 - 1179.624 Ricky Riccardi

And so on New Year's Eve, when Armstrong was arrested, the newspapers, you know, they referred to him... as Louis Armstrong, comma, old offender. That was his reputation at the age of 12. But then on Decoration Day, the Wavestone Band did a parade through Armstrong's neighborhood, and the newspapers covered that, and all of a sudden it was Louis Armstrong, comma,

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