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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons

Black History Makers: Dr. Ruth J. Simmons

February 3, 2017 MahoganyBooks

Ruth Simmons (July 3, 1945) became the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution when she was elected as the 18th president of Brown University. The youngest of 12 children born to sharecropper parents […]

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