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'''Anita Hill''' (b. July 30, 1956) is a law professor at Brandeis University.  She is best known for her testimony during confirmation hearings for [[Clarence Thomas]], whose [[US Supreme Court]] appointment was confirmed by a 52-48 Senate vote in 1991. Hill's testimony focused on Thomas' actions ten years earlier, when he was her supervisor at the [[U.S. Department of Education]], and later at the [[U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]].  Hill's testimony described sexual harassment.  Hill stood by her testimony in her 1998 autobigraphy ''Speaking Truth to Power''.  Hill was the subject of a 1993 book by [[David Brock]], ''The Real Anita Hill''.  Brock later apologized to Hill and recanted much of ''The Real Anita Hill''.

'''Anita Hill''' (b. July 30, 1956) is a law professor at Brandeis University.  She is best known for her testimony during confirmation hearings for [[Clarence Thomas]], whose [[US Supreme Court]] appointment was confirmed by a 52-48 [[Senate]] vote in 1991. Hill's testimony focused on Thomas' alleged statements ten years earlier, when he was her supervisor at the [[U.S. Department of Education]], and later at the [[U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]].  Hill claims she felt sexually harassed, but never did adequately explain why she continued to go out of her way to work for Thomas, including following him as he changed jobs and why she never reported it until he was being nominated to the Supreme Court.  Thomas said he would rather have been the victim of an assassins bullet than to have done to him what Anita Hill was trying to do.

   

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