60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats

Aug 6, 2025 - 16:02
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60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
President 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.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

(Image credit: Yoichi Okamoto)

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