Poor Peoples Campaign began with Ralph Abernathy, SCLC president, leading delegation of leaders representing poor whites, Blacks, Indians, and Spanish Americans to Capitol Hill for conferences with cabinet members and congressional leaders.

Buffalo, N.Y., grand jury indicted Pvt. Joseph G. Christopher of the U.S. Army on murder charges stemming from the racially motivated slayings of three Blacks in September, 1980.

Percy Miller also known as Master P, was born on April 29, 1970 in New Orleans. He is an American actor, rapper, producer and an entrepreneur. Miller’s parents were divorced when he was very young, due to which he went back and forth from his grandmother’s house in New Orleans to his mother’s house in Richmond, CA. He, along with his four siblings, was brought up in New Orleans Calliope Projects, which was a neighborhood high in crime rates. He grew up on the outside of the drug and hustling culture but along with this he developed a love of basketball.

Master P, went to Warren Easton High School in New Orleans. In 1987, he graduated from high school and then attended the University of Houston on an athletic scholarship. Millers dropped out of university in his freshman year and got transferred to Merritt College in Oakland, California. Right after Miller dropped out from university, his grandfather passed away leaving him with $10,000, with which he opened his own record store called No Limit Records in Richmond, California. His two years of business classes came in handy too, with the business.

Initially No limit Records was just a store and not a label. When Miller realized that there was a rap audience who loved street-level beats that the major labels weren’t providing, he decided to turn the store into a record label, in 1990. Get Away Clean was his debut album which was released in 1991 followed by Mama’s Bad Boy which was released in 1992 through In-A-Minute Records. After the release of Mama’s Bad Boy, Miller decided to move the No Limit Record back to his hometown, New Orleans. Miller’s gained some real success with the release of his third album The Ghettos Tryin’ to Kill Me, in 1994. In the following year, he released 99 Ways to Die. Miller promoted his music through word of mouth since he was operating without a national distribution deal and even without one, he managed to sell 250,000 copies. In the same year, Master P along with TRU released their third album together by the name of True. This

Carrie Meek was born on April 29, 1926, in Tallahassee, Florida.

First day of L.A riots, sparked by acquittal of four white cops in the beating of Rodney King, which resulted in at least 50 deaths, thousands injured and estimates of up to $1 billion in property damage.

Julia Amanda Perry died on April 29, 1979 in Akron, Ohio.

Willi Smith, sward winning clothing designer, born

In 1890, Henry Faulkner decided to work on a problem that caused suffering in people everyday – foot problems caused by lack of ventilation inside of shoes. For years people constantly complained about blisters and sores on their feet as well as excessive sweating and aching caused by walking and standing with shoes on which offered no cooling air to circulate within. Faulkner devised a method for placing holes in specific locations within the shoe, thus allowing for adequate circulation and greater comfort.

Faulkner patented the ventilated shoe on April 29, 1890 and thereby helped to provide comfort and healthy feet to the world.

Duke Ellington , byname of Edward Kennedy Ellington (born April 29, 1899, Washington, D.

Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington, world famous musician, born in Washington, D.C.

Parren James Mitchell, first African American elected to Congress from Maryland, born

Yusef Komunyakaa , original name in full James William Brown, Jr. (born April 29, 1947, Bogalusa, Louisiana, U.S.), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor known for his autobiographical poems about race, the Vietnam War, and jazz and blues.

Komunyakaa was born in the conservative rural South on the cusp of the civil rights movement. His father, a carpenter and strong proponent of the moral value of manual labour, was illiterate and struggled with raising a son who was naturally drawn toward books. Komunyakaa had little literature to choose from and read the Bible, encyclopaedias purchased by his mother, and James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name, a novel he borrowed repeatedly from a local church library (the local public library there in Bogalusa, Louisiana, did not admit African Americans). He also listened avidly to jazz and blues on the radio, an activity he credited with laying the groundwork for his sense of rhythm as a poet later on. He legally changed his name to Komunyakaa in tribute to his grandfather from the West Indies, who, as family legend went, had arrived in America as a stowaway on a ship. Komunyakaa enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1969. He served in Vietnam as a war correspondent (and later an editor) for The Southern Cross, a military newspaper (1969–70), earning a Bronze Star for his service.

Upon returning from the war, Komunyakaa attended the University of Colorado on the G.I. Bill. He began writing poetry in a creative writing course in college and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975. He went on to pursue a master’s at Colorado State University (1978) and a master’s in fine arts from the University of California, Irvine (1980). While in school he produced two chapbooks, Dedications & Other Darkhorses (1977) and Lost in the Bonewheel Factory (1979). In 1984 he published his first book of poetry with a commercial publisher: Copacetic, a collection of autobiographical poems for which he drew on his childhood experiences living in the rural South and on the deep-rooted traditions of

Richard Wrights Black Boy reached first place on the National Best Seller Book List.