Green and his eight classmates risked their lives to become the first black students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., following the 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown vs Board of Education that declared segregation illegal. Today, the integration of Central High School has become one of the crowning victories of the Civil Rights Movement and the triumph over legal segregation, Green's biographical material states. Now an investment banker and managing director of Lehman Brothers in Washington, D.C., Green served as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Jimmy Carter and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as chairman of the African Development Foundation. This year the series is headed by Arts and Lectures vice president Lindsey Budge. The series' philosophy is to bring outstanding speakers to campus to educate and inspire.
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