February, as many of you know, is Black History Month. A bill recently passed in the Senate to rename a portion of Route 17 in Hillburn as the “Thurgood Marshall Highway.” Rockland State Senator David Carlucci says Marshall contributed to an exciting part of Rockland’s history…
11 years after the Hillburn case, Marshall went on to argue his most famous case, Brown versus the Board of Education, before the U.S. Supreme Court. He would become a member of that body in October 1967 and served until October 1991.