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2 minutes ago - COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://gwencheayana-readbook.blogspot.com/?file=0593446003 | PDF READ DOWNLOAD Up Home One Girls Journey | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Simmonss evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignityThe New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA riveting work of literature destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographiesHenry Louis Gates Jr and nb

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  3. Description : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Simmonss evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignityThe New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA riveting work of literature destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographiesHenry Louis Gates Jr and nbspHarvard UniversityI was born at a crossroads a crossroads in history a crossroads in culture and a geographical crossroad in North Houston County in East TexasBorn in Ruth J Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers Her first home had no running water no electricity no books to read Yet despite thisor in her words because of itSimmons would become and nbspthe first Black president of an Ivy League university The former president of Smith College Brown University and Prairie View A and ampM Texass oldest HBCU Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made historyIn 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 daughters 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 childFrom the

  4. farmland of East Texas to Houstons Fifth Ward to New Orleans at the dawn of the civil rights movement Simmons depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality we still live with today Written in clear and timeless prose Up Home is both an origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting chronicle of a girl whose intellect grace and curiosity guide her as she creates a place for herself in the world

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