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The Senate narrowly votes to approve the Federal Air Highway Act, which funded construction of the Interstate system, linking America by car.
Before she became Vice President, Kamala Harris was the first South Asian-American woman elected to the Senate
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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.
