The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting by protecting voting rights. It banned poll taxes and literacy tests and required states with historians of Jim Crow discrimination to seek advance clearance before changing and requiring states with histories of Jim Crow discrimination to obtain advance clearance to change laws governing voting.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
Buried dozens of pages into the Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 was the first and only congressional apology to Native peoples.
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'Lend-Lease' saw the United States send military hardware, oil, and food to foreign allies during World War 2
