Fletcher Melvin Green (1895 - 1978) was a historian and writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair.
He was part of the Southern Historical Association, which presents the Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award in even-numbered years for the best article published in the Journal of Southern History during the two preceding years.
Vernon Lane Wharton states in the preface to Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 that the book was "inspired and directed by Professor Fletcher M. Green of the University of North Carolina.
[2] He edited and wrote the introduction to Susan Dabney Smedes' Memorials of a Southern Planter (1965).
Some of his former students prepared the Festschrift, Writing Southern History: Essays in Honor of Fletcher M. Green, published in 1965, edited by Arthur S. Link and Rembert W. Patrick.