spending.” (Dvorak, 2011). Many people who read such statement wonder about our obligation towards famine relief, and ask, whether we are morally obliged to spend one dollar in order to prevent such a crisis or not. Forty years ago, Peter Singer answered this question in his article Famine,
industry in our country. The society that Louis Armstrong was born into reflected extreme racial tensions and inequality that was present throughout the United States at the time, especially in the South. The combination of segregation following Plessy vs. Ferguson (rationale of “separate but equal”) and Jim Crow laws that were created to ensure that African Americans were able to exercise as few rights as possible created a very negative atmosphere for Louis Armstrong to grow up in, in terms of racial
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