Ernest Gideon Green was born in Little Rock Arkansas in the year of 1941. As a teenager he knew all about the civil rights movement, for his mother was a proud member of the NAACP (National Association for the advancement of colored people) and took part in many protests throughout the years Green and eight other African American high schoolers became known as the Little Rock Nine. They were the first to test the 1945 U.S. Supreme court decision in the Brown v board of education which officially desegregated all public schools in america and was a positive step towards equality. one of the greatest things Green said he accomplished in his life was not going to central high school, but was achieving happiness while still living in the integrated
