Anita Hill became very popular in the early nineties because of her role during the Clarence Thomas hearings. Anita Hill was a black woman born on July 30th, 1956 in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. Her father, Albert, was a farmer in Okmulgee and her mother, Irma, was also a farmer and a housewife. She completed her undergraduate work at Oklahoma State University and then graduated from Yale's School of Law. After practicing law for one year in Washington D.C., Clarence Thomas, at this time the Assistant Secretary of Education, offered her a job as his assistant and she accepted. When accepted his appointment as Chairman of the EEOC, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he asked Hill to work with him there. Hill thought and then agreed to work at the EEOC. The EEOC was a powerful corporation that focused on the concept of Affirmative Action. Affirmative action is the idea that a program needs to look past race and religion in order to ensure equal opportunity, in education and employment. Because of Thomas, Hill was very stressed and afraid at work, and therefore found another job at Oral Roberts University, teaching law. In 1991, Clarence Thomas had been nominated for a position as a United States Supreme Court Judge. President George Bush recommended him after Thurgood Marshall, a radical republican, resigned in 1991. Bush recommended Clarence Thomas because while not wanting to change the ratio of blacks to whites in the Supreme Court, he wanted a Republican who had a conservative view on Affirmative Action and abortion. .
Clarence Thomas was born on June 28th, 1948 in the Pin Point near Savannah in Georgia. Thomas was a black man who did his undergraduate work at St. John Vianney Minor Conception Seminary and Holy Cross. He then received his law degree from Yale Law School. He worked at the Missouri Bar from 1975-1977 and then was an attorney in the Monsanto Company from 1977-1979.
