1. Ernest Gideon Green was born on September 22,1941 and is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ernest Green was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1941 to Lothaire and Ernest Green, Sr.
Ernest Green had a brother, Scott, and a sister, Treopia Washington.
Ernest Green attended segregated Dunbar Junior High School and graduated after ninth grade, at which time he was assigned to Horace Mann High School, a new high school for African-Americans.
Ernest Green became the only senior among the nine African Americans who decided to integrate Central High that fall.
Ernest Green made history on May 27,1958, when he became the first of the Little Rock Nine, and the first African-American, to graduate from Little Rock's Central High School.
Ernest Green attended Michigan State University as the beneficiary of a scholarship provided by an anonymous donor.
Ernest Green later learned that the anonymous donor was John A Hannah, the president of Michigan State, and an occasional target of protests by civil rights activists including Green.
Ernest Green graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 and a Master's degree in sociology in 1964.
In 1965, Ernest Green received an apprenticeship in building trades from the Adolph Institute, a program designed to help minority women in the South with career development issues.
From 1981 to 1985 Green was a partner in the firm Green and Herman, and from 1985 to 1986 he owned E Green and Associates.
Ernest Green previously worked Lehman Brothers, where he was a Managing Director in the fixed income department of the Washington, DC, office, focusing on public finance.
Ernest Green is a board member at the Albert Shanker Institute.
Ernest Green earned his Eagle Scout Award in 1956 before attending Central High.
Ernest Green served as the board chair of Community Academy Public Charter School, a Washington, DC, charter school closed in 2015 for fiscal mismanagement.
Ernest Green has been depicted in two made-for-television movies about the Little Rock Nine.
Ernest Green was portrayed by Calvin Levels in the 1981 CBS movie Crisis at Central High, and by Morris Chestnut in the 1993 Disney Channel movie The Ernest Green Story.