Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Green (November 4, 1944) is a professor of history and labor studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also a well-known author and labor activist. Green was born in 1944 to Gerald and Mary Green in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. In 1966, he received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. During his time at Northwestern, Green was deeply influenced by President John F. Kennedy's famous civil rights address on national television on June 11, 1963, the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers later that same evening, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963.