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Hispanics on juries, 1875
The jury for 4 murder trials in 1875 included both “Mexicans and and Americans,”all said to be among “the most enlightened of our citizens”
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José Vivián Abeyta, 1883-5
José Vivián Abeyta, a barber who represented Las Animas County in the Colorado General Assembly House of Representatives
Rafael Chacón , 1858
Major Rafael Chacón and his wife Juanita Páiz de Chacón. He served in the U.S. Army in New Mexico during the Civil War; after his retirement from the military, he moved to Trinidad, where he served as Las Animas County Treasurer and Sheriff
José Ramón Aguilar, 1881-2
José Ramón Aguilar, who served in the Colorado General Assembly House of Representatives and later as Las Animas County Commissioner; he was also Mayor of Aguilar, which was named in his honor
Funeral Procession after Ludlow Massacre, April, 1914
Funeral Procession after Ludlow Massacre, April, 1914
Trinidad News Boys, 1914
A group of boys holding issues of the Trinidad Free Press that have headlines relating to the Ludlow strike
Ludlow Memorial, erected 1918-25
View of the Ludlow Memorial, erected in memory of the Ludlow Massacre, near Trinidad (Las Animas County). The inscription reads: “In Memory of the Men, Women and Children Who Lost Their Lives in Freedom’s Cause at Ludlow, Colorado, April 20, 1914. Erected By The United Mine Workers of America.”
Funeral Procession in front of Church, Victims of the Ludlow Massacre, 1914
Funeral Procession in front of Church, Victims of the Ludlow Massacre, 1914
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