60 Minutes: President Simmons Morrison, Toni - interviewee Safer, Morley interviewer Simmons, Ruth 1945 - interviewee Simmons, Ruth 1945- interviewee videos Morley Safer interviews Ruth Simmons about her life and appointment as the President of Brown University. Simmons was the first female president of Brown University and the first African American to be appointed president of an Ivy League academic institution. The segment includes interviews with the siblings of Ruth Simmons and their experiences growing up in Grapeland, TX. Toni Morrison makes a cameo speaking about her relationship with Ruth Simmons. Funding to convert the original video cassette to digital format generously provided by a grant for Recordings at Risk from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) 60 Minutes: President Simmons, Brown University Library CBS 2001 March 4 2001 2001 eng 1 VHS tape 00:13:25:00 reformatted digital VHS In Copyright Collection is open for research. Brown University--Presidents Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/) Box , Tape bdr:836037 bdr836037 Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)