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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
Armstrong was born into a very poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana, the grandson of slaves. He spent his youth in poverty in a rough neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, known as âBack of Townâ, as his father, William Armstrong (1881â1922), abandoned the family when Louis was an infant and took up with another woman.