Historical people of Louisiana

Louis Armstrong

• A self made jazz musician.Born on August 4,1901 in a poor family in a dangerous area of Louisiana. Father left soon after his birth and was sent to a orphanage after firing stepfather`s gun on new year. In 1913 was let out and pursued career in music. By 1918 he was a sensation.By 1932 he was touring England and had a radio station by 1937.

Jelly Roll Morton

• Born on October 20, 1890 (some sources say 1885), in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jelly Roll Morton cut his teeth as a pianist in his hometown's bordellos. An early innovator in the jazz genre, he rose to fame as the leader of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers in the 1920s. A series of interviews for the Library of Congress rekindled interest in his music shortly before his death, on July 10, 1941, in Los Angeles, California. Early Years Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe was born on October 20, 1890 (though some sources say 1885), in New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of racially mixed Creole parents—he was a mix of African, French and Spanish—he eventually adopted the last name of his stepfather, Morton.

Fats Domino

• Fats Domino was born February 26, 1928, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began performing in clubs in his teens and in 1949 was discovered by Dave Bartholomew, who became Domino's exclusive arranger,was one of nine siblings in a musical family.

John James Audubon

• John James Audubon was born on April 26, 1785, in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, France (now Haiti).

Huey Long

Huey Newton

• Huey P. Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on February 17, 1942, and named after former governor Huey P. Long. In 1966, Newton and Bobby Seale founded the left-wing Black Panther Party for Self Defense. The organization was central to the Black Power movement, making headlines with its inflammatory rhetoric and militaristic style.