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As Joe Biden is inaugurated as America's 46th President, browse his votes as a U.S. Senator
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.
Explore the votes of Hattie Wyatt Caraway, the first woman elected to the Senate
Learn the story of a place through the people that represented it through history
