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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Simmons, Ruth, 1945- author.     Subjects     Simmons, Ruth, 1945-     Smith College -- History.     Brown University -- History.     Prairie View A&M University -- History.     Women college presidents -- United States -- Biography.     Women educators -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Simmons, Ruth, 1945- author.       by title:      Up home : one girl's...         MARC Display

Up home : one girl's journey / by Ruth J. Simmons. by Simmons, Ruth, 1945- author. New York : Random House, [2023] Subjects Simmons, Ruth, 1945-   Smith College -- History.   Brown University -- History.   Prairie View A&M University -- History.   Women college presidents -- United States -- Biography.   Women educators -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780593446003 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0593446003 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  "I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president of Smith College and Brown University, and now the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M, Texas's oldest HBCU, for decades Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history. In Up Home, Simmons takes us back to Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are young shape who we become: We meet her caring, tireless mother who managed to feed her large family with an often empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and economic injustice crush his youngest daughter's dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her to a future she could hardly imagine as a child"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 378.0092 Simmons Si Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 378.0092 Simmons Si Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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