Real Anita Hill

More than a year and a half after the dramatic confrontation between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, opinions remain sharply divided on which one was telling the truth, and on the episode’s significance and meaning for American society. Opinion polls conducted on the first anniversary of the hearings showed that public sentiment in Thomas’ favor had weakened, while Anita Hill has become a national celebrity, a heroine credited with putting sexual harassment on the national agenda and thus a symbol of the feminist and civil rights movements who is said to have inspired a political “year of the woman.”