Charlotta Bass and Ben Margolis at a publication party for Bass's book Forty Years: Memoirs from the Pages of a Newspaper, 1960.

Margolis is holding a copy of the book. The party was held at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles on April 24, 1960. Margolis was a civil rights attorney whose clients included the defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Hollywood Ten.

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