found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Green, Ely; boxer, black activist, autobiographer; born 11 September 1893 in near Sewanee, Tennessee, United States; son of a white college student, Edward H. Wicks, later a Texas attorney, and Lena Green, a fourteen-year-old black kitchen servant; his white family did not openly acknowledge a relationship; never held a steady job, lived near poverty line; volunteered for military service, under the misimpression that it would make him a full-fledged citizen; was sergeant in an all-black stevedoring unit at Saint-Nazaire (1918-1919); became an accomplished boxer, fighting to a draw the champion at Camp Travis, Texas; wrote an autobiography; left only one book, but in it are the raw materials of sociology, ethics, and theology; died 27 April 1968 in Santa Monica, California, United States)
