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Order Number	00119446
Title	Louis Armstrong is presented with a resolution
Photographer	Curtis, Rolland J.
Collection ID	Rolland J. Curtis Collection
Location/Accession	RC_0049.06
Date	1966
Physical Description	1 color negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park.; Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1901. With only a fifth-grade education he dropped out to work for the Jewish Karnofsky family who treated Armstrong as their own, teaching him to speak fluently in Yiddish and earn enough money to purchase his first instrument--the Cornet. In 1912 he was arrested for firing a gun in the air and sent to detention at the Colored Waif's Home for Boys where he learned how to properly play the cornet from the warden and music director, Peter Davis. Armstrong became the leader of the Waif's Home Brass Band until his release in 1914. Joe "King" Oliver, a popular cornetist became Armstrong's mentor and soon after he was playing on Mississippi riverboats as an in-demand cornetist. In 1922 Armstrong left to Chicago with Oliver and joined a band and by 1925, for the first time he began making music under his name. Armstrong had become influential in the jazz scene as well as for Civil Rights, speaking out against the 1957 high school integration "Little Rock Nine". Armstrong performed nearly until his death; having his first heart attack in 1959, heart and kidney problems in 1968 that landed him in intensive care and then returned to touring (against the advice of his doctors) in 1970. It is believed that his last performance was for the Inauguration for the National Press Club President, Vernon Louviere on January 29, 1971, only a couple months before passing in his sleep on July 6, 1971.
Description	Pictured to the left is famed and renowned trumpeter Louis Armstrong holding his trumpet in front of his chest and an unidentified woman with her arm draped over Armstrong’s shoulder smiling next to him. Louis Armstrong received a resolution for his musical contributions over the past 50 years. Photograph dated October 26, 1966. See images 00119441 through 00119447 and 00138046 through 00138049 for additional photos in this series.
Subject	Armstrong, Louis,--1901-1971. African American women. African American men. Jazz musicians. Trumpet players. Musicians. Singers. Trumpets. Smiling. Women. Men. Los Angeles (Calif.).
Coverage	1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
Format	Photographic safety negatives
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	See Folder Record PH-RC-0047_01-0052_06 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection