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| Location: | Hillburn, New York |
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| Type: | Public, segregated |
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| District: | Ramapo Central School District |
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| Lastupdate: | 29 December 2017 |
Brook School was a grammar school located in Hillburn, New York, in the Ramapo Central School District. . The school was an all-black school, which parents fought to desegregate in the early 1930s and again in 1943.,.[1] [2] [3] [4] Thurgood Marshall was hired by the NAACP to desegregate the school. Thurgood Marshall won a disparity case regarding integration of the schools of Hillburn, 11 years before his landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, on behalf of the village's African-American parents. Leonard M. Alexander and Peter C. Alexander, "It Takes a Village: The Integration of the Hillburn School System. Page Publishing, 2014 .
Black children who lived in Ramapo attended the Brook School in Hillburn, a wood structure that didn't include a gymnasium, library or indoor bathrooms. Meanwhile, the Main School, attended by white children and now the headquarters of the Ramapo Central School District, included a gymnasium, a library and indoor plumbing.[5] [6]