Ernest Green
By
Billie
Ernest Green went to Central High. He attended Dunbar Junior high before
entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was the first black student
to graduate form Central High. After he graduated high school, he went on to
Michigan State University only to graduate with a Master’s of Art degree and
become an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs for President Jimmy
Carter. Ernest’s story of the integration was made into a movie. He is a
managing director and vice president of the Lehman Brothers finance company.
Every once in awhile, Ernest visits the High School and town that he and the
other eight students helped to integrate.
http://www.centralhigh57.org/The_Little_Rock_Nine.html
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~bfuentes/lrn.html#green
http://home.swbell.net/chmuseum/profiles/egpro.html