<em>Norvell Lee v. Commonwealth of Virginia</em>
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<em>Norvell Lee v. Commonwealth of Virginia</em>
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<p>This is the cover page of Record No. 3558, a petition for a writ of error in the case <em>Norvell Lee v. Commonwealth of Virginia</em>, submitted to the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia in 1949. Norvel LaFallette Ray Lee, a Black Olympic athlete who had served in WWII in the South Pacific, had refused to move seats on a train traveling through Virginia to Washington D.C. The court initially fined him $25 for breaking the Segregation Law of the State of Virginia. This appeal led to the overrule of his conviction, with his lawyers citing, among other cases, <em>Morgan v. Virginia</em>, a 1947 civil rights case which prohibited racial segregation on buses participating in interstate commerce.</p>
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Creator (cre): Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia at Richmond
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Washington and Lee University School of Law
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