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Charles H. Buchanan v. William Warley, 1917
The NAACP sought out cases that infringed on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in order to set legal precedents and to secure the constitutional rights of African Americans. An early victory was Buchanan v. Warley, a case involving residential segregation in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville, along with other cities, had passed ordinances to prevent people of color from residing in white neighborhoods. NAACP President Moorfield Storey, a constitutional attorney, argued the case before the Supreme Court in April 1917. The court ruled that the ordinance violated the Fourteenth Amendment. As a result of the ruling, some whites adopted private restrictive covenants, in which property owners agreed to sell or rent to whites only. |