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Armstrong had what many, today, would refer to as a traumatic or dysfunctional childhood. Out of this environment was born a desire to succeed, be admired, and make people happy. Louis learned at an early age that music could lead to fame and money. He and his friends would sing for nickels and pennies on the streets of his native New Orleans and he saw how popular the musicians who played the funeral and celebratory parades were with the public. On New Year’s Eve 1913, just 12 years old, Armstrong was caught firing a gun into the air and sentenced to a boys home for waifs.  It was here under the tutelage of Peter Davis, who ran the home, that Armstrong learned how to play the cornet and he was soon playing picnics and parades. Later in life Louis returned year after year to the same waifs home to spread his joy to whoever was housed there. He never forgot Peter Davis or the kids.

Louis Armstrong was the first vital jazz soloist to attain world wide influence as trumpeter, entertainer, and show business personality. He was a strong force in spreading the influence of jazz throughout his life. Through his trumpet solos and vocal interpretations alike, jazz fans immortalize him. His “Hot Five” and “Hot Seven” recordings done in the mid 1920’s had no parallel in jazz. He is also a well-recognized Pop music figure by his personable and throaty, charming and guttural jazz vocals.

Ida Gray Nelson Rollins: First Black Woman Dentist in Chicago     African-American dentist Ida Gray Nelson Rollins was born February 20, 1867, in Clarksville, Tennessee; at an early age she and her parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Gaines Public High School in Cincinnati, graduating in 1887. She entered the University of Michigan Dental School and received her DDS degree in 1890. At this time Gray became the first Black woman in America to earn a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree. She returned to Cincinnati where she established a very successful private practice.

It was reported that a newspaper editor said of Dr. Gray, “her blushing, winning ways makes you feel like finding an extra tooth anyway to allow her to pull.” In 1895, Gray married James S. Nelson, and they moved to Chicago, where she spent the rest of her life. Her husband, a Spanish-American and World War I veteran, died in 1926; she remarried in 1929 to become Mrs. William A. Rollins, but was better known as Dr. Ida N. Rollins. She was also the first Black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago and mentored other African-American women into the profession.

She became active in several Chicago women’s organizations, and she was often singled out as an example of what Black women could accomplish. She died on May 3, 1953.

Reference:
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia
Darlene Clark Hine, editor
Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1993

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