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Oct 20, 2010 · Audio Clips from Anita Hill's 1991 Testimony. Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3. Hill accused Thomas of making inappropriate remarks. She said one such comment came as Thomas was drinking a soft drink in the ...
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The uncomfortable spectacle of the hearings reverberated across the nation and had lasting consequences.
In October 1991, Americans were riveted by the spectacle of an all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Anita Hill, the African-American law professor who had accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
TV viewers, both male and female, watched in increasing discomfort as the senators asked Hill about large-breasted women, a porn star named Long Dong Silver and pubic hair on a Coke can, among other previously unthinkable subjects for a Senate committee hearing.
But for women, Hill’s testimony would have special significance, as it was the first time someone had so publicly shared her account of workplace harassment—something that so many of them had experienced.
Though the committee would eventually confirm Thomas, making him only the second Black man to serve on the Supreme Court, the impact of Hill’s televised testimony would reverberate dramatically across the nation, with lasting consequences that endure today.
“I think women saw play out, in the most human terms, Anita Hill—credible and very much reflecting the experiences of so many other women—being demeaned, being dismissed and being mistreated by an array of male senators,” says Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president emerita of the National Women’s Law Center. “And when they reflected upon it at the end of the hearings, their anger began to rise, and their determination to do something about it began to increase.”
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Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, ... The complete transcripts of the Clarence Thomas--Anita Hill hearings : October 11,12,13, 1991
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Sep 27, 2021 · Professor Anita Hill is sworn-in before testifying at the Senate Judiciary hearing on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Miss Hill testified on her charges of alleged sexual harassment ...
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Sep 20, 2018 · The front page of The New York Times on Oct. 12, 1991, the day after Anita F. Hill and Judge Clarence Thomas first testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the sexual harassment allegations.
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Apr 23, 2018 · Clarence Thomas awaits proceedings during his hearing regarding the alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill. (Credit: Wally McNamee/Corbis/Getty Images) The controversial confirmation hearing of ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Lisa O'Connor/AFP via Getty Images. In 1991, attorney Anita Hill testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her when he was chair of the Equal Employment ...
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