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The Future of America's Past
The Fire of a Movement
Season 1
Episode 2
On March 25, 1911, New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, and 146 workers — nearly all young women, many of them teenage immigrants — perished. We visit the building and learn how public outcry inspired workplace safety laws that revolutionized industrial work nationwide. Descendants and activists show us how that work reverberates today.
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Young people staged a strike in 1951 to protest segregated public schools.
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In 1869, a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
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Long-simmering tensions between white and black residents in Chicago erupted in violence.
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What did “freedom” mean during the American Revolution?
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 110,000 Japanese-American citizens were arrested.
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Texas has long been a place of cross-cultural exchange. How did Texas become Texas?
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At Virginia’s Fort Monroe, we discover the spot where where slavery began.