The excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved. Nobody had, since this was the first "general strike" in the garment trades, also the largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States until that moment.

Which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

to connect a historical event to the present
to bring a person involved in a historical event to life
to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event
to tell the reader about an important historical event