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Submitted by yongli on Mon, 05/01/2017 - 12:56
Striking coal miners and their families gather at the Ludlow tent colony during the United Mine Workers' strike of 1914. Governor Elias Ammons deployed the National Guard to quell the strike, and a pitched battle between strikers and guardsmen broke out on April 20. Guardsmen burned the tent colony, and nineteen people, including more than a dozen women and children, were killed before day's end.
Location:
Ludlow, CO
Place:
Las Animas County
Date:
1914
Copyright Notes:
Image courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Department.