African American Women In Defense of Ourselves, New York Times, 1992, a response to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings by African American women.
PBS Frontline: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Public Hearing, Private Pain (55 min.)
Public Hearing, Private Pain (55 min.) 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 the 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.
Sexual Harassment Law in the Age of Trump and #MeToo, Yale Law School, April 10, 2018.
A panel on the causes of, and solutions to, sexual harassment and discrimination in the age of Trump and #MeToo held April 10, 2018.
Panelists:
Tanya Hernández, Fordham Law School
Anna McNeil, Engender at Yale
Shannon Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Vicki Schultz, Yale Law School
Cari Simon, The Fierberg National Law Group
Rachel Tuchman, #TimesUp
Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Summit, Washington D.C., April 24, 2018
National Domestic Workers Alliance & National Farmworker Women’s Alliance, Unstoppable Town Hall: Survivors Share Their Stories, April 24, 2018, Washington D.C.
Barnes v. Costle, 561 F.2d. 983 (D.C. Cir. 1977)
Paulette L. Barnes v. Douglas M. Costle, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 561 F.2d 983 (D.C. Cir. 1977), the first successful appellate court sexual harassment case.
Corne v. Bausch and Lomb, 390 F. Supp. 161 (D. Ariz. 1975) (1975)
Tomkins v. Public Service Elec. & Gas Co., 422 F. Supp. 552 (D.N.J. 1976)
Feminist lawyer Nadine Taub represented Adrienne Tomkins in one of the earliest sexual harassment cases, Tomkins v. Public Service Elec. & Gas Co., 422 F. Supp. 553 (D.N.J. 1976). Tomkins won on appeal and eventually settled the suit for $20,000.
Henson v. City of Dundee, 682 F.2d 897 (11th Cir. 1982).
Henson v. City of Dundee, 682 F.2d 897 (11th Cir. 1982) established the prima facie case for sexual harassment under Title VII.
Williams v. Saxbe, 413 F. Supp. 654 (D.D.C. 1976)
Diane Williams made history with her groundbreaking case in 1976, Williams v. Saxbe, 413 F. Supp. 654 (D.D.C. 1976), the first successful sexual harassment case.
Diane Williams, photograph by Kyle White.
For more about her life, see here.