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    The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard...
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    Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre–part of the Colorado Coalfield War–in 1914...
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  • American history since the Civil War". He was shot and killed during the Ludlow Massacre, the bloodiest event of the strike, on 20 April, 1914. Tikas was born...
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    Tensions climaxed at the Ludlow Colony, a tent city occupied by about 1,200 striking coal miners and their families, in the Ludlow Massacre on 20 April 1914 when...
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  • This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate. For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List...
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    upon, and the ultimate death of, strike leader Louis Tikas during the Ludlow Massacre. He was the son of librarian Klas August Linderfelt. Most of what is...
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    Virginia and the Colorado Coal Strike of 1913–1914 (during which the Ludlow Massacre occurred). The Paint Creek Miners' Union with the help of Hayes, serving...
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    Williamsburg in Virginia. He was widely blamed for having orchestrated the Ludlow Massacre and other offenses during the Colorado Coalfield War. Rockefeller was...
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    Coalfield War and the Ludlow Massacre. He was convicted on May 3, 1915, of the murder of a deputy sheriff who died at Ludlow during the massacre at a trial held...
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    ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Colorado Coalfield War, which resulted in the Ludlow Massacre. He was also instrumental in starting...
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    20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre that killed over a dozen women and children when Colorado National Guard opened fire on a striker encampment at Ludlow, 22 miles...
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    Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne...
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    The Lattimer massacre was the killing of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse at the Lattimer mine...
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    1992c. "Militia slaughters strikers at Ludlow, Colorado". History.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015. "The Ludlow Massacre". PBS. Retrieved November 9, 2015....
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    National Guard. He led a portion of the militia that participated in the Ludlow Massacre, part of the 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War. After the First World...
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    in 1903-04. The best known strike culminated in the infamous Ludlow Massacre at the Ludlow Depot, a stop on the Colorado and Southern Railroad which was...
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  • family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1977 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides...
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  • United States List of massacres in the United States List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio Ludlow massacre Orangeburg massacre "Announcements and actions...
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    generally spared from fighting, although there was a small massacre at Hopton Castle and Ludlow Castle was captured by Parliamentary troops. During the Industrial...
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  • were incidents such as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Battle Creek Massacre, and the Circleville Massacre, in which Mormons committed acts of violence...
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    American labor activist who wrote the only eyewitness memoir of the Ludlow Massacre, part of the Colorado Coalfield War. Mary Hannah Williams was born...
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    for prosecuting members of the Colorado National Guard following the Ludlow Massacre. Hildreth Frost was born to Walter Clarence Frost and Ella Hildreth...
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  • or propaganda. In 1913 and 1914, the mining union was blaming the Ludlow Massacre, where on-strike miners and their families were killed by state militia...
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    Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado, commemorating the Sand Creek Massacre that occurred here...
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    1891 Frick mine explosion Pittsburgh railroad strike Pullman Strike Ludlow Massacre Johnstown Flood of 1889 List of worker deaths in United States labor...
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    student of the church fathers. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. ISBN 9780567086945. Ludlow, James Meeker (1896). The Age of the Crusades. Ten epochs of church history...
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    views on the Peterloo massacre and the Sepoy rebellion, on Catholic Emancipation, and on the enfranchisement of the common people. De Quincey was also a...
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    The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath...
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    striking miners in Colorado, an incident that came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre. During that strike, the company hired the Baldwin Felts agency, which...
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    militias fired extensively into a miner camp in Ludlow, Colorado, an event later termed the Ludlow Massacre. A privately purchased M1895 also provided the...
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