On October 31, 1965, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] At twelve, he marched in parades for the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he was given his first cornet. But he had publicly boycotted the city since its banning of integrated bands, […]
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Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman. At 29, he almost died. | The Washington Post
He described the attack a decade later in his last sermon, which he delivered the night before his assassination.
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