Frank D. Reeves Building

This is my city I grew up in., I want to go back, and see the Frank D Reeves building for it was name for my Father in the 80’s.This is my Father FRANK D. REEVES (1916-1973) . He is a man to be remembered for all the work that he did to help African-Americans and all Americans in a time of need. He worked as a key operative in helping to shape the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown I) and Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294 (Brown II) (1955) which held that “separate but equal” in public schools based on race was unconstitutional (Brown I) and that desegregation should take place with all deliberate speed (Brown II) with Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP.
He was the First African-American to serve on the Democratic National Committee. And as an advisor on minority affairs to President John F. Kennedy, and was appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners and was an active and vocal civil rights advocate working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.