Ludlow Massacre took lives of miners, family members amid strike for fair wages and conditions

On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special. The miners waged a pitched battle with the National Guard for 10 days before President Woodrow Wilson ordered federal soldiers […]

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