Ramapo Central School District Board President and Rockland County Historian Craig Long met with a group of students this afternoon to discuss the history of school segregation in Hillburn. With the assistance of NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, the residents of Hillburn successfully appealed to the New York State Supreme Court. The schools were eventually desegregated in 1946 and the
Brook School was closed.
It is believed that this case laid the groundwork for Marshall's landmark case
Brown v Board of Education which declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
This podcast is a 9:20 segment of Mr. Long's conversation.
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