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Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority—religious or political or otherwise—should be immune to challenge by reason. He emphasized in his work the importance of tolerance, especially religious tolerance.
Role In: Enlightenment
Born: November 21, 1694 Paris France
Explanation:
In 1964 the congress of racial equality and the student nonviolent coordinating committee launched <u>the Freedom Summer (a campaign to register African American voters).</u>
This campaign was an initiative of both civil organizations Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a way to increase African American voter registration in Mississippi mainly, (At the time, only 10% of black population in Mississippi had registered), and to protect their right to vote, which had been aggressively attacked by some local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan.
<span>By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. The leaders of the local black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. Led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted more than a year—during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job—and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Over the next half-century, Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end entrenched racial segregation.</span>
"The following month, Germany sunk four more U.S. merchant ships. ... On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. Get a firsthand look at how a new breed of weapons like WMDs, submarines, armored tanks and air attacks changed modern warfare forever in WWI: The First Modern War"
The industrial revolution impacted the environment. The world saw a major increase in population, along with an increase in living standards. This led to the depletion of natural resources. The use of chemicals and fuel in factories resulted in increased air and water pollution and an increased use of fossil fuels. With factories typically being heat based and burning coals, toxic waste would be built up and ultimately dumped into nearby rivers. Thus creating the pollution of water and air.
