This week in history Anita Hill testified at Clarence Thomas’s hearing

On Oct. 11, 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before Congress that she was sexually harassed by then-Judge Clarence Thomas, as the Senate Judiciary Committee weighed whether to support Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Thomas has denied Hill’s allegations that he sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor, and he went on to secure a lifetime appointment to the high court, where he remains a justice.