Draws on stories from survivors and archival photographs to describe the history of the "Titanic" from its launch to its sinking.

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.