Civil Rights,
Family,
Government
Sep. 28, 2022
An unsung hero
Marshall’s most famous case arose in 1947 when a former babysitter for the Marshall family, Andrea Perez, and her fiancé Sylvester Davis wished to marry. California, like most states at the time, barred whites and specified persons of color from marrying one another.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
Few people have heard of California lawyer Daniel Marshall, but he was the sole counsel on a long-shot case that helped change American history.
Marshall was born in 1902 and graduated from Los Angeles's Loyola University in 1926. He then graduated from L.A.'s Jesuit-affiliated St. Vincent's School of Law, later to become Loyola Law School.
Marshall was Roman Catholic, active as a lay leader, and politically lib...
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