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struggle4progress

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6. Here's Woody

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Sun Apr 20, 2025, 04:47 PM

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Refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families inLudlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914

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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