Rallies and teach-ins were held in every state on Monday to tie Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death to the fights for workers' rights going on today. Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, where he was supporting a strike by 1,300 sanitation workers. The sponsors of the rallies said that they want to stop the cuts and laws that are hurting working Americans. Several thousand people rallied in Memphis, and other rallies were held in places like Newark and Madison.
See "Unions Rally, Linking Their Cause to Dr. King", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 4, 2011