Frank D. Reeves
| Frank D. Reeves | |
|---|---|
| Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 798: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
| Born | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Baptised | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Died | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (aged Expression error: Unexpected < operator.) Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Resting place | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Education | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Alma mater | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Occupation | lua error in module:wikidataib at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Employer | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Works | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). See Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Style | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Spouse(s) | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Children | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Family | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Dynasty | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Awards | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Website | Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Signature | |
| Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 706: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
Frank Daniel Reeves (March 23, 1916 – April 8, 1973) was an African American lawyer, civil rights activist, and politician. He studied at Shaw Junior High School and Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., and earned undergraduate and law degrees (1939) from Howard University, where he later held a full professorship and taught full-time or part-time for most of his life.[1]
Reeves worked at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with Thurgood Marshall on the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended racial segregation in the United States (1954 and 1955), and later was a litigant on Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1964). He also participated in Burns v. Wilson (1953) and acted as counsel to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in Powell v. McCormack before the US Supreme Court (1968–69).[1]
Reeves served then-Candidate John F. Kennedy as a minority affairs adviser during his 1960 campaign, and ran for and was elected as the first African American member of the Democratic National Committee in 1960, where he seconded Kennedy's nomination as the Democratic Party's Presidential Candidate. After Kennedy became President of the United States in January 1961, Reeves became the first African American to serve as a Presidential administrative assistant. Kennedy nominated him to the governing commission of the District of Columbia, but withdrew the nomination in June 1961 following a Senate inquiry into tax payments.[2]
He served on Howard University's Board of Trustees from 1961 to 1966, and was a founding member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers in 1969.[1]
He died six weeks after suffering a stroke on Sunday, April 8, 1973, in Freedmen's Hospital (now Howard University Hospital) in Washington, D.C.[2]
External links
 |
Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkwhsfhw-008-011
- https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/bios.html
- https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/964
- https://www.reevescmcventure.com/news/washingtonians-first-r9ykl
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Smith, J. Clay Jr. (1973). "In Memoriam: Professor Frank D. Reeves -- Towards a Houstonian School of Jurisprudence and the Study of Pure Legal Existence". Howard Law Journal. 18: 1–11. Retrieved 2024-10-02. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "SmithJr1973" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Frank D. Reeves, 57, Kennedy Aide, Dead". The New York Times. New York, New York. United Press International. 1973-04-10. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
This article "Frank D. Reeves" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Frank D. Reeves. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
