Church officials working in the Inquisition burned alive both Renaissance scholars and leaders such as Copernicus, Martin Luther, and Galileo Galilei.
        
             
        
        
        
French, english and dutch traders joined spanish traders in the west indies
        
             
        
        
        
It could not and did not eliminate segregation, or the discrimination in employment, wages, and working condition that plagued so many African Americans during the difficult years of the 1930s.