Simmons talked with The Texas Tribune about “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey,” which depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality still persist.
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Simmons’ book, “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey,” chronicles her life growing up in East Texas and Houston in the ‘40s and ‘50s, setting the stage for her distinguished career in academia. The youngest of 12 children of two sharecroppers, Simmons served as president of Prairie View from 2017-23. She previously served as president of Smith College in Massachusetts and president at Brown University, where she was the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League school.
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