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Davis took lessons from Nickerson in the 1890s, learning the piano and the cornet. His took first job teaching music when hired as a warden at New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys, [1] a juvenile detention institution. The Home was encircled by barbed wire fences and abutted a cemetery and farmlands.
He was orphaned at the age of eight and sent to the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans, an institution for orphaned or delinquent boys (about six years previously, Louis Armstrong had also been sent to the Home, after being arrested as a "dangerous and suspicious character"). [3]
Chicago's Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a long-term residential home for troubled young men and women from the streets and abusive homes, has published The Waif's Messenger for more than 100 years. A cartoon waif, an orphan boy, appeared in the 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon A Waif's Welcome. [3]
He spent the night at New Orleans Juvenile Court and was sentenced the next day to detention at the Colored Waif's Home. [25] Life at the home was spartan. Mattresses were absent, and meals were often little more than bread and molasses. Captain Joseph Jones ran the home like a military camp and used corporal punishment. [26]
Colored Waifs Home for Boys, New Orleans, where Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training after a court sent him there for firing a pistol in the air on New Year's Eve 1912. Scholastic, clinics, camps
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