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How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star

2579.006 - 2600.112 Ricky Riccardi

And so all that stuff is bubbling under the surface. And he did it himself. You know, he was his own archivist. He makes these tapes. He curates his own archive. And I think he realized on a deep level that he could not go on Johnny Carson or Ed Sullivan in 1967 and talk about being black in America and talk about marijuana and talk about all these subjects.

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