Frank L. Stanley, Sr. was a publisher, educator, and civil rights leader. He headed the English department at Jackson State College and Louisville Central High School; he was also a football and basketball coach. Stanley started his journalism career as a reporter for the Louisville Defender in 1930; later became owner and publisher. He is the co-founder of the National Newspaper Publishers Association; and he served as president five times. Stanley won more than 35 national awards in journalism, including the President’s Secret Service Award of the NNPA in 1970 and the Wendell Willkie Award for Public Service, presented by President Truman. He received an honorary doctorate from Allen University and citation from Lincoln University for outstanding journalism. Stanley drafted legislation in 1950 that led to integration of state’s public universities; he also wrote the bill creating the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. Stanley was named by U.S. War Department in 1946 to head study of troop segregation in Europe; he was a subsequent report that paved the way for desegregation. He wrote the award-winning, syndicated column, “People, Places and Problems.” Frank L. Stanley, Sr. died on October 19, 1974.