This collection consists of 1 high resolution digital photo of David Marcus and 1 nameplate that belonged to Marcus from his law office.

David Marcus was the civil rights attorney for Gonzalo Mendez and the other plaintiffs in the Mendez v. Westminster case of 1946-1947. In 1927, Marcus graduated from the University of Southern California's law school and eventually set up a successful private practice in Los Angeles. He was a Jewish American who had a son with his first wife, Esther Rosenthal. He later married Maria Yrma Davila, a Mexican woman with whom he had two daughters.

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