What is Ernest Green?
{{Infobox person |birth_name = Ernest Gideon Green |image = Ernest Green 1996.jpg |caption = Green in 1996 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|09|22}} |birth_place = [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], USA |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Phyllis |children = Adam, Jessica and MacKenzie |movement = [[Civil Rights Movement]] |organization = |awards = [[Congressional Gold Medal]]<br />[[Spingarn Medal]] }} '''Ernest Gideon Green''' (born September 22, 1941) is one of the [[Little Rock Nine]], a group of [[African-American]] students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to go to classes at [[Little Rock Central High School]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]. Green was the first African-American to finish the school in 1958. In 1999, he and the other members of the Little Rock Nine were given the [[Congressional Gold Medal]] by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. == Life == Ernest Green was born on September 22, 1941. He was a senior of the [[Little Rock Nine]]. He graduated from 12th grade on May 27, 1958.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ualr.edu/race-ethnicity/ernest-green-the-little-rock-nine/ |title=Ernest Green, The Little Rock Nine - Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity |access-date=2020-02-14 |archive-date=2018-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609171226/http://ualr.edu/race-ethnicity/ernest-green-the-little-rock-nine/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Movies == * [[The Ernest Green Story]] (1993) * [[Nine from Little Rock]] (1964)<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nine_from_little_rock_1964 Nine From Little Rock - Rotten Tomatoes]</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Ernest}} [[Category:1941 births]] {{biography-stub}}