It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their ... It had that "ballyhoo" spirit so typical of the 1920s. In one way, however, it was atypical. The Scopes trial took place in ...
Witness to a lynching, Armstrong determines to flee to Chicago, with or without the resistant Daisy. (She stays behind, but not, to Louis’ later dismay, for long). In 1920s Chicago, Armstrong ...