The Boston Globe, October 23rd, 2007
Ernest G. Green has lived his entire adult life in a role few of us can imagine: as a living piece of history. Green achieved this status as a 17-year-old in 1957, by virtue of walking into Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. He is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who integrated the school in defiance of a lot of Southern sentiment. Green and seven of his classmates are to be honored tomorrow evening at Faneuil Hall. The event, sponsored by Harvard Law School, was the brainchild of professor Charles Ogletree, but more on that later. Little Rock is famous, of course. ...
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