Yes, Virginia, you have your first Black woman in Congress. Jennifer McClellan was sworn into the House of Representatives on Tuesday, holding the poll tax receipt her father had to pay to vote. Her mother did not vote until the Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965.
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