User:King Eric III/Loretta King

[]Loretta King []is, as of January 20, 2009, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who succeeded Acting Assistant Attorney General Grace Chung Becker. The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is the institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. The Division was established on December 9, 1957, by order of Attorney General William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who has since then headed the division.