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Ernest Green

by Maria from Brooklyn, New York in United States

Want to know who Ernest Green is? Here are some things that you should know about him on why he is famous! Ernest Green is famous for being the only person to be African American to graduate from his school that is called “Little Rock Central High School”. And he’s well known for fighting for freedom for education and civil rights. And he is heroic for being the first black person to graduate from Rock Central High School, and one thing that makes him heroic is that he inspires people to fight for civil rights.

Ernest Green was born in “Little Rock, Arkansa”. And he had a hard life because when he was 13, his father had died, which made him the mantle of man of the house, which made him get a job to support his family and he was working through summer jobs. But while he was doing that, he went to a school called "Little Rock Central High School", and he made some friends during his time there. Him and 8 other students were going to Little Rock Central High School, but they knew that it was a white school and they would probably be treated differently for the way they look, and when they got to the school, they all had to go home since there was an angry mod of white people. and they had to do this as well on the second day of school. And when he graduated from that school, he inspired a lot of people to stand up for what’s right because he graduated even when he was African American.

After he graduated from Little Rock Central High School, he made people fight for their own rights and to get a proper education. And he changed the course of history by standing up and fighting for his rights. And it inspired millions of people to do the same thing as well to fight for their own rights and education, as well civil rights, and Ernest Green has been awarded many honors for the work of civil rights.

He is a very persistent person because he continues to go to school even with all of the racial words, and he still went and he finally graduated form that school, and he fights for his education, which inspires millions of people to fight for their own education. Which makes him a good person. And one thing we can learn from Ernest Green is that we should fight for what we want, even if there are people trying to stop you.

 

Page created on 6/18/2025 5:35:49 PM

Last edited 6/21/2025 3:01:45 PM

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