Buchanan v. Warley
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| Buchanan v. Warley | ||||||
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 Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued April 10 – April 11, 1916 Reargued April 27, 1917 Decided November 5, 1917 |
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| Full case name | Buchanan v. Warley | |||||
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| Louisville, Kentucky ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing was unconstitutional in respect to the Fourteenth Amendment | ||||||
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Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing civil government instituted racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to African Americans violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract. Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.[1]
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[edit] See also
- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 245
[edit] References
- ^ Silver, Christopher (1997). "The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities". In Thomas, J. M.; Ritzdorf, M.. Urban Planning & the African American Community: In the Shadows. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publ.. ISBN 0803972334.
[edit] Further reading
- Bernstein, David E. Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform. Chapter 5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 0226043533
- Nelson, Arthur C.; Dawkins, Casey J.; Sanchez, Thomas W. (2004). "Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation". Urban Studies 41 (2): 423–439. doi:10.1080/0042098032000165325.
- Rice, Roger L. (1968). "Residential Segregation by Law, 1910-1917". Journal of Southern History (The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 34, No. 2) 34 (2): 179–199. doi:10.2307/2204656. JSTOR 2204656.
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