Intro: Who Is Ely Green?

And why did he return to the southern mountain town he’d fled 50 years earlier?

His mother was a Black servant in the home of his white father’s family... a family that never claimed him, even when young Green and his mother were living right next door. What led him on adventures from Tennessee to Texas to France to California? How did he find himself on the front row of history time and again... meeting presidents, celebrities, and athletes along the way?

What drove him to create a autobiography that asks: What does it mean to be biracial in America?

WHY WE ARE CREATING THIS PODCAST

Ely Green spent a lifetime answering what it meant to be biracial in America and how someone like him could gain equal rights and the real benefits of citizenship. At a time when we’ve taken a wider look at our American story and who gets to tell it, Ely Green’s story offers a fresh perspective—and a very different and deeply personal answer to this question.