Ernest Green

Only 16, he was the first African-American graduate of Central High School. He dismisses the fact that he graduated so young by indicating that his mother was a school teacher and so he learned his school work a bit younger than most. He handles himself with sureness and is even able to talk of the events in Little Rock with good nature. His grades, despite the pressures, were excellent, and his interests varied. Never far from his camera while in New York, he took almost as many pictures of other people as the photographers took of him. Ernest was the natural leader of the group of students, done with a poise his sister says that he has had since a small child. He enters Michigan State University this fall on a scholarship.