Project Details
This podcast uses the brutal, unsolved murder of a union organizer as a window into the broader history of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Frank Little was a member of the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Little’s final assignment was to go to Butte, Montana in 1917 to organize miners working for the powerful Anaconda Mining Company. He was kidnapped by masked men, drug behind a car, and hung from a railroad trestle.
Major themes include: class conflict, radical politics, corporate power, immigration, resource extraction, war and civil rights.
The podcast uses a mix oral histories, archival audio, folk songs, field recordings, interviews with historians, and narration to tell the story.
Subjects or Themes
Labor, Class, Corporations, Mining, American West, Montana, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Unions, Radical Politics
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Content Type
Oral History, Sound, Music