Season 1 Episode 7 Extra

Ruth Simmons | A Family of Sharecroppers

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Brown University President Ruth Simmons grew up in a family of sharecroppers, a notorious system in which farmers pick cotton and live on someone else's land for a share of the profits. But they had to pay such high charges for rent, they often fell into a cycle of debt.

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