Louis Armstrong was always known as a very friendly and accommodating performer, one who put up with a lot of hardships because he loved to delight audiences.
In 1957, Armstrong surprised many by speaking out against President Dwight Eisenhower�s hesitant response to the Little Rock integration crisis, feeling that Eisenhower should have acted a lot faster in protecting African-American school children who were helping to integrate schools in Arkansas.
At the height of this disagreement and during a period of time when he was considered controversial, Armstrong appeared on the television show �Crescendo,� performing a brief instrumental version of �Nobody Knows The Trouble I�ve Seen.�
Note his powerful quote of �The Star Spangled Banner�,� which symbolizes the fact that much of the trouble he was seeing at that point was due to the U.S. government.
-Scott Yanow
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