| Summary: | Publisher Garth C. Reeves, Sr. was born on February 12, 1919 in Nassau, Bahamas. After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1936, Reeves enrolled in Florida A & M University and received his B.A. degree in printing in 1940. Reeves served in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1942 to 1946, before returning to Miami to work under his father, Harry Ethelbert Sigismund Reeves, who founded the Miami Times newspaper in 1923. In 1970, Reeves was named publisher and chief executive officer of the Miami Times. He later served two terms as president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and became a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the University of Miami, Barry University, and Florida Memorial University.
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