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Host Joe Madison speaks with Ernie Green, one of the Little Rock Nine.

Topic: Integration of Little Rock Ark. schools and the new commemorative coin.

Ernest G. Green (born September 22, 1941) was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.. Green, the eldest of the nine, was the first black to graduate from the school. In 1999, he and the other members of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton.