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Publish date: 2024-08-11

February 5, 2024

A sharecropper's daughter: Ruth J. Simmons' Journey

February 5, 2024 • From a sharecropping family in Jim Crow Texas to becoming the first Black president of an Ivy League university, former Brown University president, Ruth Simmons, writes about her incredible life in her memoir "Up Home: One Girl's Journey."

A sharecropper's daughter: Ruth J. Simmons' Journey

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