When he was born 115 years ago this week, the world around Louis Armstrong was not exactly wonderful. True, there were, as he later sang, “skies of blue and clouds of white,” but on the day of his birth, August 4, 1901—and for much of his life after that—African Americans encountered discrimination in many facets of their lives. Still, Armstrong...

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