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"The way they are treating my people in the South, the…" — Louis Armstrong
c. 1957(Approximate date)· Louis Armstrong (speaker)
“The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”
- Speaker
- Louis Armstrong
- Occasion
- Interview with Larry Lubenow, Grand Forks Herald (September 18, 1957)
Louis Armstrong's furious response to Gov. Faubus blocking the Little Rock Nine — for which he cancelled a State Department tour of the USSR.
Sources & citations
- 1.louisarmstronghouse.orgwebsite
- 2.dippermouth.blogspot.comwebsite