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1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas


Buchanan v. Warley 245 U.S. 60 (1917)

Buchanan v. Warley was a US Supreme Court case that declared a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks in white-majority neighborhoods or buildings and vice versa unconstitutional. 

The case was brought by the Louisville and national NAACP on behalf of William Warley, a black postal worker who contracted to buy property in a white area from realtor Charles Buchanan. The ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals was reversed. 

The Buchanan decision marked a victory in the battle against racial segregation, but it focused only on upholding property rights, not affirming equal protection under the law.

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