The Sand Creek Massacre isn’t the only grim chapter in Colorado history that will mark a major anniversary in 2014. Next year is also the hundredth anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, the darkest ...
On Sunday, April 20, celebrations of Easter will coincide with the centenary of the Ludlow Massacre, a bloody attack on workers for which John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was entirely responsible. On this day ...
LUDLOW, Colo. Descendants of survivors of the Ludlow Massacre in 1914 were on hand Sunday for the unveiling of a restored memorial to one of the bloodiest confrontations in labor history.In 2003, ...
One-hundred-and-one years ago today, the Ludlow Massacre in southern Colorado shocked people around the country. Striking coal miners and their families living in a tent city were attacked by company ...
Ermenia “Marie” Padilla Daley has a lot of reasons to celebrate. She turns 104-years-old on Saturday, clearly an incredible feat in itself. She's also one of the last living survivors of the Ludlow ...
In developed democracies, systemic violence takes the form of food insecurity, poverty and homelessness. The Ludlow Massacre, and other similar historic events, bring public attention to the ...
Labor Day is more than just a three-day weekend. It’s a celebration of workers’ rights in the United States, and the sacrifices made by people generations before us to make it easier and safer to make ...
The National Park Service is providing more than $150,000 towards preserving the site of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. The grant was announced last week as part of the American Battlefield Protection ...
The Ludlow Massacre’s tiny monument off Interstate 25 in Southern Colorado is easily missed if you don’t know where to find it. Though the nearby coal mine garnered international attention April 20, ...
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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Thomas Andrews talked about his book, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War, in which he looks at the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, in which ...
Cover illustration shows mine worker firing a gun after his wife and children were killed in a massacre at their tent camp by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards.