"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a troublemaker." Mother Jones took her own advice regarding a small town in Las Animas County. The Ludlow Massacre occurred on April 20, 1994, in the tent city of Ludlow, Colorado, the intricate web of events leading up to the events that occurred in Ludlow are a look at the conditions in which some minorities and immigrants had to live in the early 20th century. Coal production had become a driving force in the United States' industrial revolution. Coal was used for a variety of purposes, including powering steam engines, producing iron, and heating in homes and cities. One of the largest users of coal in southern Colorado was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I). Their furnaces were heated with coal from the Culebra mountain range in southern Colorado, known for having the richest coal in the state. The coal is shiny black bituminous coal, the second highest grade of coal available. CF&I owned the land and mines from which the coal was supplied, most of the workers working it...