Ernest gideon green
Birth: September 22,1941
Parents: Lathaire and Ernest Green Sr. Green
Siblings: Scott Green(brother) and Troepia Washington(sister)
Ernest Gideon Green was one of the first African Americans to graduate from an all white school. He was an active church and Boy Scouts member. Previously, he attended Dunbar Junior High and Horace Mann High School before transferring to Central for his senior year. Ernest had endured an entire year of antagonistic people and protesters but still managed to graduate on May 27, 1958. During his graduation, Martin Luther King Jr. came to spectate it as well inconspicuously.
Afterwards, he graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in social science in 1962 and a MA in sociology in 1964. From 1968-77, he was director of the A. Philip Randolph Education fund. Next, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Jimmy Carter Administration from '77 to '81.
Parents: Lathaire and Ernest Green Sr. Green
Siblings: Scott Green(brother) and Troepia Washington(sister)
Ernest Gideon Green was one of the first African Americans to graduate from an all white school. He was an active church and Boy Scouts member. Previously, he attended Dunbar Junior High and Horace Mann High School before transferring to Central for his senior year. Ernest had endured an entire year of antagonistic people and protesters but still managed to graduate on May 27, 1958. During his graduation, Martin Luther King Jr. came to spectate it as well inconspicuously.
Afterwards, he graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in social science in 1962 and a MA in sociology in 1964. From 1968-77, he was director of the A. Philip Randolph Education fund. Next, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Jimmy Carter Administration from '77 to '81.