- published: 14 May 2016
- views: 57240
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.
Thomas grew up in Savannah, Georgia and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and at Yale Law School. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he became a legislative assistant to Missouri United States Senator John Danforth and in 1981 was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); he served in that position until 1990, when President George H. W. Bush nominated him for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On July 1, 1991, after 16 months of service as a judge, Thomas was nominated by Bush to fill Marshall's seat on the United States Supreme Court. Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had made unwelcome sexual comments to attorney Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and subsequently at the EEOC. The U.S. Senate ultimately confirmed Thomas by a vote of 52–48.
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American attorney and academic—presently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Though Thomas was confirmed and took a seat on the Court, Hill's testimony focused national attention on the issue of workplace sexual harassment.
Hill was born in Morris, Oklahoma, the youngest of the thirteen children of Albert and Erma Hill, who were farmers. Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery. Hill was raised in the Baptist faith.
After graduating as valedictorian from Morris High School, Hill enrolled at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor's degree with honors, in psychology 1977. She went on to Yale Law School, obtaining her Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980.
Actors: Kimberly Bada (actress), Al Mitchell (actor), Jennifer Capone (actress), Al Mitchell (director), Al Mitchell (writer), Lapell Chapman (actor), Lapell Chapman (actor), Lapell Chapman (editor), Ronald Edwards (actor), Ronald Edwards (actor), Destiny White (actor), Bill Greene (actor), Kevin Peterson (actor), Bill Greene (actor), Kevin Petersen (actor),
Plot: Deals with today's reality facing so many young urban boys living in cities in the state of New Jersey. The perspective is from a bright, astute young man, who however is struggling in school and fears falling into the criminal justice system.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: David Lawrence (composer), Joey Naber (actor), Nora Dunn (actress), Martin Klebba (actor), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), Laura Sevier (miscellaneous crew), Pat Crawford Brown (actress), Orson Bean (actor), Said Faraj (actor), George Wyner (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Troy Miller (producer), Robin Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Larry Thomas (actor), Kevin Kilner (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Mimi Kuzyk (actress), Ralph Berge (miscellaneous crew), Mandy Patinkin (actor), Delroy Lindo (actor), Louis Gossett Jr. (actor), Paul Winfield (actor), Dave Mallow (actor), George Bush (actor), Barry Flatman (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Lindy Booth (actress), Ernest R. Dickerson (director),
Plot: Fact-based story about the sexual harassment suit filed by Anita Hill during the appointment trials of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court during the George Bush presidential administration. The film gives both parties a fairly even presentation and does not try to assess blame. It does, however, show a lot of background political maneuvering that took place, particularly on the part of Kenneth Duberstein, an administrative spin doctor.
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-true-story, sexual-harassment, supreme-court-nominee