Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls.
John Cabor, or Giovanni Caboto was an Italian mariner who sailed under the British flag at the request of King Henry VII of England, and landed in Canada in 1497 and claimed the land for England.
