[5] Starting in the 1960s, Green's activism gained much local publicity, especially in her role as chair of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee.
[7] In 1985, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Green as a member of the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council of New York State Commission on Corrections.
[5] Green organized "much-publicized protests at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events hosted by Governor Pataki from 1995 through 1999.
NEWS10 Video She was the co-author, with Frankie Y. Bailey, of two books: Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (1999),[5][6][24] and Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era (2009).
[25] Green won numerous awards for her activism in the Capital District, including from the New York State Bar Association, NAACP, and Rockefeller College.