Rockland officials yesterday unveiled a Human Rights Monument at Dutch Garden in New City dedicated to Thurgood Marshall, the country’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice. RCC president Dr. Michael Baston, who is also a lawyer, said Thurgood Marshall was a hero to him…
Before Thurgood Marshall famously argued the Brown v. Board of Ed case in 1952, he worked here in 1943 when he successfully appealed to the New York State Board of Education to end segregation of the Village of Hillburn’s elementary schools.