March 16, 2012

After Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School, he attended Michigan State University, earning a BA in social science in 1962 and an MA in sociology in 1964. Afterward, Green served as the director for the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund from 1968 to 1977. He then was appointed Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs during the Jimmy Carter administration, serving from 1977 to 1981.