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The Division enforces the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended through 2006; the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the National Voter Registration Act of 1993; the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
Created in the 1950s, the Civil Rights Division leads the Justice Department’s enforcement of federal laws intended to combat discrimination in areas such as housing, employment and education.
After a short tenure, selected to be first head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Malcolm R. Wilkey: 1958–1959: Robert Kramer: 1959–1961: Nicholas Katzenbach: 1961–1962: John F. Kennedy: Norbert A. Schlei: 1962–1966: Frank H. Wozencraft: 1966–1969: Lyndon Johnson: William H. Rehnquist: 1969–1971: Richard Nixon
Kristen M. Clarke (born 1975) [1] is an American attorney who served as the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025. Clarke previously served as president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law .
Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to serve as assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, standing in the offices of the Department of Justice's Civil ...
(Civil Division) Javier M. Guzman: April 27, 2021 [19] July 20, 2021 [20] — Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. David Chipman: April 6, 2021 [21] September 9, 2021 [22] — Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legislative Affairs) Helaine Greenfeld: April 23, 2021 [23] January 3, 2022 Nomination not ...
"This is a victory we've long wanted to see," Paul Killebrew, deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, said of the 96% compliance with several hundred reforms set out ...
The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Civil Rights Division (formerly the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC)), in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which protects US citizens and certain other individual from ...