Trumpet player, composer, singer and actor. Louis Armstrong is one of the most celebrated and most influential jazz musicians of all time. Moreover, he is arguably one of the most famous and influential Americans of all time. Although often criticized for what seemed to be a non-confrontational stance on race, Armstrong was a staunch supporter of desegregation and publicly protested the government’s inaction in the Little Rock school integration conflict by cancelling a State-organized tour of the Soviet Union.