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===Thurgood Marshall=== [[File:Former Main School building - Hillburn, NY (2010).jpg|Former Main School|thumb|200px|left]] In 1943, the attorney [[Thurgood Marshall]] won a disparity case regarding [[racial integration|integration]] of the schools of Hillburn, 11 years before his landmark case of ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''. He represented the village's [[African American|African-American]] parents. In 2010, the state legislature designated May 17 as Thurgood Marshall Day in honor of his work in civil rights. Mixed-race children who lived in the town of Ramapo attended the Brook School in Hillburn, a wood structure that did not have a library, indoor bathrooms or gymnasium. The [[Main School (Hillburn, New York)|Main School]] was reserved for white children and included a gymnasium, a library and indoor plumbing. It is now used as the headquarters of the Suffern Central School District. The Rockland African Diaspora Heritage Center in [[Pomona, New York]], has an exhibit of artifacts and photographs loaned by a student who attended the Brook School. The student went on to college, and eventually taught English and history.
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