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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.
Frank Lastie had been sent to the Colored Waifs Home for boys as a youth. [4] "One of his first engagements was in the Waif's home with Louis Armstrong," according to drummer Herlin Riley, Lastie's grandson. Riley said the boys received their first musical training at the juvenile detention school. [7]
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]
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]
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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]
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