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Dr. Ruth Simmons.

Ruth simmons prairie view

 First Black President of an Ivy League University 2001 - 2012.

Grapeland, Texas.  July 3rd, 1945.  The daughter of sharecroppers, in fact the youngest of 12 children in the family, would go on to beat incredible odds, and reach the highest lead some of the most prestigious Universities in the nation, capping her leadership off with 11 years as President of Brown University.

Ruth was born into poverty and as a child would spend her days in school as well as farming along side with her family.

 Sharecroppers children would go to school when they could, sometimes harvests and the whims of farm owners would take away predictability.  Meals she remembered would be in a pail and consist of one biscuit and syrup.

 Life was hard, and early on, there was no concept that one day she would go on to become Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern California in 1979, Dean of Finance at Princeton Univ