Thomas and Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain

Oct 13, 1992 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

Frontline explores how Clarence Thomas's bitter Supreme Court nomination hearing, replete with charges of sexual harassment, reached deep into the psyche of black America. Through interviews with prominent African-Americans, the program finds that th... (more)e dynamics of race-being black in America-were inescapably at the heart of the story and that little common understanding existed in the way blacks and whites viewed the nomination battle.

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