While traveling to Ghana as Ambassador Satchmo, he recognized the struggles the people still faced in the face of trafficking slaves and colonial subjugation and remembered the American South. vigilante violence against black people. (Eschen 62). The sympathy he felt for their struggles inspired him to perform “Black and Blue” and the “sense of shared struggle was mutual” (Eschen 63). Through “Black and Blue,” Armstrong remembered the struggles that black people in the United States suffered, as did the people of Ghana. This was a turning point in his life and ultimately led him to work harder to help his black brothers obtain their rightful civil privileges. This conversion was illustrated when he canceled a trip for a Soviet tour to help African-American children in Little Rock. Armstrong accused President Eisenhower of being "two-faced" on civil rights and allowing "Faubus to run the government." 'It's getting so bad that a colored man no longer has a country'” (Eschen 63). In response, Eisenhower sent federal troops to help with integration. However, the musician's actions at other times sparked harsh feelings such as: "What have you done for your people, other than harming them?" (Meckna 37) He was criticized for wearing leopard skins in a film and using minstrel humor that made him appear to be playing into the demeaning stereotypes of the time. In a