On a Saturday afternoon in nineteen eleven, a fire tore through a New York garment factory packed with young immigrant women. The fire escape buckled. The ladders were too short. And the stairwell door was locked — deliberately, to stop the girls stealing cloth. A hundred and forty-six people died. The youngest were fourteen.

August Mercer tells how their deaths were written into the safety laws that protect us today. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.

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A sixteen-year-old girl was told she was Queen of England. She wept, and refused, and said the crown was not hers. They made her take it anyway. Nine days later, the men who had used her abandoned her — and she was left kneeling, blindfolded, on a scaffold, groping for the block she could not find.

August Mercer tells the story of a pawn in a game she never asked to play. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.

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An American suburb — homes, a school, a playground — built directly on top of twenty-one thousand tonnes of buried chemical waste. When the rain brought it back up, the children were already sick. And in the deed of sale, the company had written, in plain language, that people might be killed.

August Mercer tells the story of the housewife who mapped the illnesses house by house and would not be silenced. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.

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