Up Home: One Girls Journey Simmons Ruth J.
From the daughter of sharecroppers who became the first African American president of an Ivy League university comes an inspiring, indelible memoir about the people and places who made her remarkable…
Specifikacia Up Home: One Girls Journey Simmons Ruth J.
From the daughter of sharecroppers who became the first African American president of an Ivy League university comes an inspiring, indelible memoir about the people and places who made her remarkable life possible--and the power of education and books in a young person's lifeI was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas.Ruth Simmons has led an extraordinary life. The former president of Smith College and Brown University, and now the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M, Texas's oldest HBCU, she has inspired generations of students. Born in 1945, Simmons grew up in the small town of Grapeland, Texas, the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no water or electricity, and some of her earliest memories are of the cotton field. Yet despite this--in fact,