They were excluded from voting, maybe not by a specific law, but by poll taxes or other things after Reconstruction. And we let that go for 80 years. Yeah, After 80 years, they passed the Voting Rights act to ensure that representation would be grant that people's voices would be heard in those communities. Yeah. And what was the result of that Act? Yeah. So just one edit to that is that, you know, after the Civil War, there was an effort to ensure that black people could vote. (01:40–01:51)
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