For five years he was moderator of the Consolidated Baptist Educational Association, and he promoted the establishment of what is now the Simmons College of Kentucky.

In 1883, when he was an elderly and respected minister, he was assaulted and beaten for failing to comply with a demand to give up his seat on a train.

[4] At the same time, Green began to work with other "colored" Baptist leaders such as George Washington Dupee to organize and expand the church.

[6] Soon after the State Convention of Colored Baptists in Kentucky had been formed in 1865, Green proposed it should set up a school.

[8] In the mid-1850s, on his way to Paris with his wife, Green found his son John, with his hands bound, on his way to being sold "down the river".

[4] In 1883 Green, by then an elderly and respected church leader, was traveling by train between Paris and Maysville.

A white minister, who was head of a girls' school, boarded the train with a party of pupils and staff.

Reports of the incident and its outcome did nothing to delay disenfranchisement of African Americans and the growing movement among whites for segregation.