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pentrv, sewing, tailoring, pottery, furniture repairing, cooking and other skills.
She was appointed Supervisor of Industrial Arts for the county, visiting eight separate schools in Rappahannock County on a regular basis between 1926 and 1943. This position was funded primarily by the Anna T. Jeanes Fund of 1908, a Foundation promoting vocational skills for black students.
She also served as advisor to the Superintendent and the Board of Education on black affairs, and she organized Parent-Teacher Leagues. The Parent-Teacher League in Washington purchased a two acre lot on Piedmont Avenue, and with the assistance of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, erected a two room school iri 1924.
In 1937, Mrs. Green influenced the County School Board to subsidize a high school education for blacks at the Manassas Industrial Institute, with several counties paying a portion of the costs. However, few families could afford to pay the room and board fees.
In 1946, Mrs. Green was influential in the planning for the George Washington Carver Regional High School in Culpeper, a cooperative effort of Rappahannock, Orange, Madison and Culpeper counties. It opened
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