Charles Costa, a key union organizer, met his end during the violent turmoil of the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914. He was a male of Sicilian descent who had toiled in the mines of southern Colorado since he was a boy of twelve. On that fateful day, amidst a heated battle between striking coal miners and the Colorado National Guard, Costa was fatally shot in the head. His death was just one of the many that marked the tragic events at the Ludlow tent colony, where he and his family had taken
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