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Peter Davis (October 25, 1887 – April 29, 1971) [1] was an American musician who gave musical training to disadvantaged youths, including Louis Armstrong, at the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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]
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
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]
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]
Vanessa Bryant is honoring the memory of her late husband Kobe Bryant and their daughter Gianna with a powerful new book.. To celebrate the outpouring of public art displayed around the world ...
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Louis Armstrong, as an 11-year-old boy in New Orleans, was arrested by police after firing his stepfather's pistol to celebrate the arrival of the new year. He was sentenced by the juvenile court to 18 months at the Colored Waifs' Home, where his musical talent would be perfected, and he would go on to fame as one of America's greatest jazz ...