When Governor Orvil Farbus refused to allow nine Little Rock black students to enroll in Little Rock high school in 1957, Louis Armstrong put his career on the line to speak out very publicly against racial injustice. Armstrong said:
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“Because of the way they are treating my people in the South, the US government can go to hell” and [US President Dwight D. Eisenhower] “has no guts’ for not sending in the military to protect the Little Rock Nine.”
He called Eisenhower "two-faced" and described Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus as an "uneducated plough boy".
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@Deglassco Racism gets very juicy and animated when you threaten to actually give all citizens equal rights. Today we have the GOP trying hard to march us backwards to the “good ole” bad days of the 1950s. Racism was beat back, and for 60 years has been trying to resurge like a bad rash. 🤔
