Frank D. Reeves
7760 16th Street, NW
Frank D. Reeves (1916–1973), a lawyer and civil
rights activist, was part of the team that shaped the
1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court
case outlawing school segregation. He advised
Senator John F. Kennedy on minority affairs during
the 1960 presidential campaign, then joined the
Howard University School of Law faculty. At the same time Reeves served as legal counsel to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped negotiate the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as well as the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The municipal building at 14th and U streets, NW, built in 1986, was named in Reeves’s honor. Reeves and his family moved to this house in 1961.
Marker is on 16th Street near Kalmia Road, NW, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
