Founder and editor of The Louisville News, serving the city’s Black community, William Warley often showed courage at a time when African Americans had few allies in their fight for civil rights. He co-founded his newspaper in 1912 with Lee L. Brown and in 1914 began a case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the city’s housing-segregation law, but in reprisal he lost his Post Office job. His editorials targeted not only white racism, but pointed out ways that African Americans perpetuated the cycle of discrimination, and he criticized African Americans for remaining loyal to the Republican Party. He was a candidate for magistrate on the Lincoln Independent Party ticket in 1921, and three times in the 1920s, his newspaper office was destroyed by African Americans. He died in 1946, but his stands encouraged stronger tactics in civil-rights fights to come.