Father Green entered the graduate summer program of the School of Theology of the University of the South to pursue a Masters of Sacred Theology in 1959 along with his cousin William O’Neal. They each received the degree in 1965, becoming the first African Americans to receive a degree of any kind from the University of the South.
Father Green also had a long and distinguished career in the Episcopal Church, most of his years serving Grace Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia. He also was a civil rights leader in tidewater Virginia and served in elected public office in Norfolk.
The KKK riding Franklin County school busses and monitoring the schools, claiming it is for the protection of white children while others say it is intimidation.
Sewanee/Monteagle Restaurant/Bar refusing service to African American students/employees of University of the South. Bar employees also pulled weapons on students.
