He worked as a lawyer in South Carolina before moving to Tampa where he served as principal of Harlem Academy School.
Greene earned a law degree from Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina and was admitted to the bar in 1890.
McKay, Wall and others organized the White Municipal Party in Tampa to exclude African Americans from elections.
The group dominated local elections and every Tampa mayor belonged to it from 1910 until 1947.
In 1887, Joseph A. Walker, a carpenter and merchant, became the first African American elected to Tampa's city council.