Up Home: One Girl's Journey with author Ruth Simmons

Ruth J. Simmons - former president of Brown University, Prairie View A&M University, and Smith College - discusses her book "Up Home: One Girl’s Journey" with James Campbell, professor of history at Stanford, March 20, 2024. Campbell was on the faculty at Brown when Simmons was president there, and she appointed him to chair a committee that produced a groundbreaking report on the university’s historical ties to the slave trade and slavery. This conversation was the second of three events in winter/spring 2024 in the Academic Innovation for the Public Good series, co-organized by Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College. Learn more and register for future events: stanford.io/ai4pg
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