Satchmo, the Duke, and the Count: Representing America at its Best Despite Having Experienced its Worst
by Larry Tye Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Exuberant crowds in New Orleans had crowned Louis Armstrong the pretend King of the Zulus during Mardi Gras in 1949. But in 1960 when he visited the Belgian Congo, not far from the fountainhead of the Zulu people, the …