of Labor during Jimmy Carter's administration. From 1981 to 1985 Green was a partner in the firm Green and Herman, and from 1985 to 1986 he owned E. Green and Associates. He previously worked Lehman Brothers, where he was a Managing Director in the fixed income department of the Washington, D.C. office, focusing on public finance. He is also a board member at the Albert Shanker Institute. Green earned his Eagle Scout Award in 1956 before attending Central High. Over 25 years later, he received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award which BSA has awarded to fewer than 2000 men who earned Eagle as a Scout. In 2004, he organized the Scoutreach program in Washington, D.C. and served as the program's volunteer chair. Green served as the board chair of Community Academy Public Charter School, a Washington, D.C. charter school closed in 2015 for fiscal mismanagement. On March 3, 2015 the Attorney General for the District of Columbia filed suit against Green and another board member for having "grossly abused their positions as directors" and "contributed to the school's acting contrary to its non-profit purpose". The suit has since been dismissed and no further charges filed. Television portrayals Green has been depicted in two made-for-television movies about the Little Rock Nine. He was portrayed by Calvin Levels in the 1981 CBS movie Crisis at Central High, and by Morris Chestnut in the 1993 Disney Channel movie The Ernest Green Story. In 1980, he was part of the Milton Friedman (PBS) Free to Choose panel discussion (volume 8 of 10) related to workers rights and the economy. In 2019, he was portrayed by DeRon Horton on Drunk History: The Little Rock Nine Take on Segregation in Schools, which featured Amandla Stenberg. See also Melba Pattillo Beals Nine from Little Rock References External links Biography at The HistoryMakers Transcript of Interview for 35th anniversary of the EEOC Ernest G. Green Pleads Guilty to Tax Violations, USDOJ, December 21, 2001 with Ernest Green by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, March 3, 2011 Little Rock Nine Congressional Gold Medal recipients Michigan State University alumni Activists from Little Rock, Arkansas 1941 births Living people United States Department of Labor officials Carter administration personnel United States Department of Housing and Urban Development officials