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Frank Little

Year
1905
Where
Montana
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

Franklin Henry Little (1877 or 1878 – August 1, 1917), commonly known as Frank Little, was an American labor leader who was murdered in Butte, Montana. No one was apprehended or prosecuted for Little's murder. He joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, organizing miners, lumberjacks, and oil field workers.

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