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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

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The Ludlow Massacre left deep, lasting scars on the United States’ workers’ rights movement, serving as another stark reminder of the potentially deadly retribution that can await workers who dare to fight back. Its last living survivor, Ermenia “Marie” Padilla Daley, walked the earth as recently as 2019. Just three months old when the militia set her home ablaze, she was a coal miner’s daughter who had been born in the Ludlow mining camps;

— Kim Kelly

Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.