[1][2] Greene created the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi's first and oldest black-owned newspaper.
Postal Service, magazine salesman with Tuskegee Institute, and the Civilian Conservation Corps.
[11] He spoke all over Mississippi and was recognized in the Pittsburgh Courier on their "Top Ten Honor Roll" two years in a row.
[11] Eventually he began speaking nationally, in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C.[11] According to The Pittsburgh Courier the governor of Mississippi, Theodore G. Bilbo, asked Greene to leave the state because he fought against racism "too hard".[when?
[11] In February 1948, Greene keynoted a Mississippi Citizens Committee, and they supported President Harry S. Truman's civil rights program.
[2] He supported voting rights and equal education for blacks, and also felt that segregation should continue.
[15] The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission paid Greene to attend the 1960 National Association of Colored Publishers and Editors conference, in part to report back on the NAACP activities.
[1] Percy Greene died of a stroke on April 16, 1977 in his home in Jackson, Mississippi.