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Gearing up for the biggest nationwide mobilization of workers in decades, CWA, the union movement and a growing list of allies are planning activities and events for April 4, the day in 1968 that Martin Luther King was murdered while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis.

From statehouse rallies and demonstrations in cities nationwide, there's been no shortage of creative hand-made signs as CWA and its allies fight the wave of attacks on workers' rights.

Monday, March 7, 2011, marked the 46th anniversary of the incident most often referred to in American civil rights history as ?Bloody Sunday.? This illustrative phrase reflects the consequence of vicious attacks perpetrated against peaceful civil rights activists once they crossed the Edmond Pettus Bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that fateful Sunday. However, the event itself, more importantly, underscores what led to significant changes in the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States embodied in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bill summary defines its purpose as, ?An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.?

This historic event was marked this week by a high profile political reenactment of that march. The 2011 march was again led by United States Representative John Lewis of Georgia (the principal organizer of the 1965 march), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV), U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (MD), U.S. House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (SC), U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson to name a few. The commemoration was joined by Republican Governor of the state of Alabama Robert Bentley.

Click to read about important dates for women in the United States in the month of March, Women's History Month.