what were key provisions of the voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by Lyndon Johnson. Its primary purpose was to enforce the 15th Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.rovisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 1  The key components of the Act were found in sections 4 thru 9. 2  They were temporary provisions, which were renewed and amended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, the last time for a period of twenty-five years. 3  They come up again for congressional consideration in 2007.