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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: "I Started Filling Rifles"

For Students 9th - 10th
You can listen to or read an interview with a woman who was a strike supporter during the Colorado Coal strike. In this interview she recalls how she helped save women and children during the Ludlow Massacre in April, 1914.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Colorado Coal Field War Project: Ludlow Massacre [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A very detailed lesson plan that stretches over nine lessons that develop the young scholars' understanding of why the Ludlow Massacre occurred and the ramifications of it. [pdf]
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Eyewitness to Murder: Recounting the Ludlow Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
An eyewitness account provided by an electrical engineer about the brutal Ludlow Massacre in which three women and eleven children were killed in a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, during the height of the Colorado Coal Strike.
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Handout
Other

United Mine Workers of America: Umwa History: The Ludlow Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado in 1914. Read about the thwarted attempts of coal miners to unionize.
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Website
Other

Irc History: The Ludlow Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
A good explanation of the Ludlow Massacre in the coalfields of Colorado and what led up to it. In addition, there is an interesting description of how this violent reaction to a strike by miners affected John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Rockefellers: The Ludlow Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
This American Experience film about the Rockefellers includes this accounting of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s role in the business decisions that had a role in fomenting it.
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Primary
Other

Amdocs:ludlow Massacre, 1913: Song by Woody Guthrie

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the words of a Woody Guthrie song giving an account of the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado coal strikes in 1913.