When I turned 30, I had just finished my first year of law school and was heading into my 2nd year.  Over a year before, I was a Naval Officer stationed with the Marines and a year later, I was a college student.

We often focus on age 18 or 21 as the great milestones in our lives but it's age 30 when we start making significant life challenges.   

From age 30 to 34, I had attended and graduated from law school, got my first legal job, married my girlfriend and proceeded to make a litany of life decisions while transitioning into 'grown folks territory'.

Here is the first part of my 5 part series '30s, 40s, 50s and Beyond' as I talk about what I learned through age 30 to 34.  

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A social worker who worked for 20 years in Alaska.

A retired United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major.

Two sisters born and raised in Augusta, GA, share stories about their experiences growing up in the Deep South during Jim Crow.

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Let me share with you the story of 6 dynamic professionals who were African American, women and all over 6 feet tall. They were professionally and affectionately known as the '6 Footahs' and from 2006 to 2017, these ladies decided THEY would be the change their community needed.

 

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Please tune in to the second part of my epic discussion with my personal Black History Icon, my mom, as she talks about her experiences growing up in the Jim Crow South and her participation in civil rights marches

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You got to do this and you to do this; it was just the way we grew up. I just accepted the fact that we sat at the back of the bus, stand at the back of the line; white folks were first, and we were second. That's just the way it was."

For those who grew up during the Jim Crow years, segregation and discrimination was an ingrained way of life. However, this way of life wasn't centuries ago. This way of life occurred after the civil war in the 1860s through the late 1960s. And today, there are many African Americans living who can share stories of their lives and experiences during the toughest and hardest chapters of American History.

Today, on "IN THE KNOW with Tony Reeves", I'm starting my 'Living Black History' series with 30 year teacher, Jim Crow Survivor, Glenda Reeves (my mother), who grew up in the South during Jim Crow and Integration.

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