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Louis Armstrong’s Halloween Magic: How a Ten-Hour Visit to his Hometown Conjured up Change
Ten years after Louisiana’s Jim Crow laws led Armstrong to swear off performing in New Orleans, a committee from the city’s nascent jazz museum convinced him to return for a ground-breaking concert – one that helped pave the way for change.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Revisiting the Civil Rights Movement in “The Trail They Blazed”
A new traveling exhibit, currently at the TEP Center through November 12th, brings on both memories and reflections for a New Orleans writer. Photo of Doratha "Dodie" Smith Simmons above by Melanie Cole.
– by Juyanne James