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Little Known Black History Fact – Black America-Know Our History: July 30, 1956 marks the Birthday of Anita Hill. This young attorney brought national attention to workplace sexual harassment during the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas when she publicly testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was sexually harassed by her former employer.

Anita Hill was an attorney who earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. She soon began working for Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights and later the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After Thomas was nominated to...

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