No Segregation
The clear mandate of the court in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that no child should be denied access to the school nearest him solely on the basis of race has always been honored in Malverne. As a lifelong resident and a product of the district schools from kindergarten through senior high school, I can attest that segregation as a deliberate, conscious act to separate and maintain apart students of different races has never existed here. All along there have been Negroes in the school district, comprising parts of the villages of Malverne and Lynbrook and the unincorporated area of Lakeview. Three elementary schools serve these areas: the Lindner Place school serving Malverne; the Davison Avenue School, Lynbrook; and the Woodfield Road school, Lakeview. Most of the Negro families live in Lakeview, as they did 35 years ago when I attended elementary school. Even then, however, a Negro family lived five blocks from my home in Lynbrook and the children attended the Davison Avenue school with me. If the district had practiced segregation in the true sense, those children would have attended a school designated solely for Negroes, but in fact no such school existed.
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