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Buchanan v. Warley
William Warley, a black (then called "colored") resident of Louisville, Kentucky, (and president of the local chapter of the NAACP,) purchased a lot on a majority white block from Buchanan, but refused to pay without a court declaration that he had a right to live there. A Louisville ordinance forbad the sale of property to people of color on predominantly white blocks and to whites on blocks whose residents were predominantly people of color. Buchanan asked a Louisville court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional, which it refused to do, and the lower court was affirmed on appeal to the state supreme court. Hence the case came to the US Supreme Court.
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