During a tour of Queens College and its facilities, CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and CUNY General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs Derek Davis visited the Louis Armstrong House Museum to celebrate Black History Month.
Affairs Derek Davis visited the Louis Armstrong House Museum Feb. 16 to celebrate Black History Month.
The museum is funded in part by Queens College and CUNY and works to maintain the memory and legacy of the famous jazz music pioneer in the very home he lived in in Corona, Queens. “Louis Armstrong was a megastar, he grew up in New Orleans and lived here in Corona with his wife Lucille for 30 years,” said Regina Bain, executive director of the museum to amNew York. “He was one of the first Black musical megastars.
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