A scene cut from the film about the important role of women in political history.

Hear some of the background on this story from Director/Producers Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller.

A selection of scenes that were deleted from A Class Apart.

From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire claimed 146 lives. Among the victims were some of the same women who had previously gone on strike to advocate for better working conditions.

The general public showed no sympathy for striking garment workers. Policemen ran strikers into court everyday, where judges fined them, put them in jail, or sent them to the workhouse on Blackwells Island.

While union leaders cautioned against action, a 22 year old garment worker inspired a citywide strike.

In October, 1909, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, fought back against striking workers. Their tactics were often brutal.

An immigrant worker questions the American Dream.

In the early 20th Century, the United States has no workplace safety laws.

Machines in garment factories could be cruel taskmasters, as could employers.

In the early 20th Century, many female immigrants worked in garment factories. Some were girls as young as ten, whose families had chosen America for its promise of a better future.

The 1911 Triangle factory fire killed 146 and changed beliefs about workplace safety. New Yorkers from all walks of life came to pay tribute to the victims.

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On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. By the time the fire had burned itself out, 146 people were dead. The landmark legislation that followed gave New Yorkers the most comprehensive workplace safety laws in the country.

Author Kirstin Downey on the labor rights activist Frances Perkins, who would go on to become the secretary of labor and the first woman in a U.S. Cabinet.

Jimmy Carter's story is one of the greatest dramas in American politics. In 1980, he was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat. Over the subsequent two decades, he became one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world. Jimmy Carter traces his rapid ascent in politics, dramatic fall from grace and unexpected resurrection.

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Jimmy Carter traces the ascent of an ambitious country boy from a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office; it examines the failings of Carter's political leadership in the context of the turbulent 1970s; and explores the role religion played in his career.

Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century — and one of the most controversial.