The Conley Family is a prominent American family descending from husband and wife, Green Conley and Harriet Conley, who were unrelated, and Harriet's three brothers Pascal, William and Hamilton. Green was born of a union of an Irish slaveholder and one of his Black African servants in Georgia. His wife Harriet and her brothers were born of similar circumstance in Alabama. Based in the Tennessee Valley Region, they formed the foundation of the Free Black Elite in the region prior to the Civil War, and subsequently, the Talented Tenth community at the turn of the century. Their prominence began with the farming and agricultural endeavors of the original brothers in Northern Alabama, but the family climbed to a new level of prominence with the descendants of Green and Harriet, as family members expanded into various other areas of American life. Starting in the early 1800s, their business success, extensive and continuing community involvement, and photogenic quality of the family members, elevated them to social prominence until Civil Rights Movement brought about sweeping changes to social structure of the American South.