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infoonly

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1. excellent book about it

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Sun Apr 20, 2025, 03:04 PM

Apr 2025

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle, Rutgers University Press 2007 delves into the "political corruption, repression, and immigrants' struggle against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity and class...pitting labor activists... against the era's powerful business class" of which the Ludlow Massacre has become a tragic representation.

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Lest we forget: Ludlow Massacre, 1914. [View all] niyad Apr 2025 OP

excellent book about it infoonly Apr 2025 #1

My great grandfather was there DenaliDemocrat Apr 2025 #2

Fascinating. LoisB Apr 2025 #3

Thank you, niyad, for this reminder. So many atrocities to not forget. LoisB Apr 2025 #4

Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, helped to organize miners and was there to support the strike Deuxcents Apr 2025 #5

Here's Woody struggle4progress Apr 2025 #6