
Frank L. Stanley, Sr. (1905 - 1974) - Became an influential desegregation
leader as publisher of The Louisville Defender. He drafted the 1950 legislation
that led to the desegregation of Kentucky's colleges and universities, chaired
groups commissioned by the U.S. War Department in 1946 and 1948 to study the
segregation of U.S. troops in Allied-occupied Europe after World War II and
recommended the desegregation of U.S. armed forces. He obtained political
support for the law that created the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights in
1960. He was also recognized as a leading black journalist, co-founder of the
national Newspaper Publishers Association, and jurist for the Pulitzer Prize
award panel.
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