Support WBUR60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threatsPlay04:15Download AudioHansi Lo WangAugust 06, 2025 SharePresident Lyndon B. Johnson moves to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. while others look on after Johnson signed the federal Voting Rights Act into law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965. (Lyndon B. Johnson Library)