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In 1995, Hill co-edited Race, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings with Emma Coleman Jordan. [ 3 ] [ 54 ] In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power , [ 55 ] in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy [ 3 ] [ 5 ] and wrote that creating a better society ...
Public confirmation hearings on the Thomas nomination began on September 10, 1991, and lasted for ten days. The senators' focus as they questioned Thomas and an array of witnesses for and against the nomination was on Thomas's legal views, as expressed in his speeches, writings, and the decisions he had handed down as a federal appeals court judge.
Confirmation is a 2016 American television political thriller film, directed by Rick Famuyiwa and written by Susannah Grant.It is about Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the controversy that unfolded when Anita Hill alleged she was sexually harassed by Thomas.
Anita Hill reflects on what's changed since her testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and what work surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace remains unfinished.
Anita Hill testifies at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, Oct. 11, 1991. Hill alleged that Thomas made unwanted sexual advances and ...
Thirty years after overseeing the controversial Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, President Biden is being credited for promoting Black women — both in his administration ...
Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had sexually harassed Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and the EEOC. [5] The Senate confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52–48, the narrowest margin in a century.
In a 2010 voicemail, nearly 20 years after the contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing of her husband, Thomas asked Hill to apologize for "what [she] did."