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Up home : one girl's journey / by Ruth J. Simmons.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection LA2311 .S56 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Ruth, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simmons, Ruth, 1945-.
- Simmons, Ruth.
- Women college presidents--United States--Biography.
- Women college presidents.
- Women educators--United States--Biography.
- Women educators.
- Smith College--History.
- Smith College.
- Brown University--History.
- Brown University.
- Prairie View A & M University--History.
- Prairie View A & M University.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 2023
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- East Texas. Crossroads ; Miss Fannie and Mr. Ike ; Greater New Hope ; Latexo ; Miss Ida Mae
- Fifth Ward. Bloody Fifth ; Canaan ; Black Antigone ; Community
- The world. Fair Dillard ; Worlds Apart ; Commencement.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Simmons, Ruth, 1945- Up home
- Online version: Simmons, Ruth, 1945- Up home
- ISBN:
- 9780593446003
- 0593446003
- OCLC:
- 1317835600
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