My Life: Started from the Bottom, Now I'm Here

Alphonso Green is the grandson of a sharecropper who ultimately served over twenty-nine years in the US Army before retiring in September 2004 at the highest-enlisted rank of Sergeant Major at the Pentagon, Washington, DC. For the past twenty years, he has continued to work at the Pentagon in the Civil Service. He was born in rural Quincy, Florida, in December 1957, shortly after the onset of the civil rights era.

During his early childhood, he lived and later worked on a farm located south ...