Invisible: the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
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2018
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She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male. Eunice Hunton Carter, the author's grandmother, was raised in a world of stultifying expectations about race and gender, yet by the 1940s, her professional and political successes had made her one of the most famous black women in America. But her triumphs were shadowed by prejudice and tragedy. Greatly complicating her rise was her difficult relationship with her younger brother, Alphaeus, an avowed Communist who—together with his friend Dashiell Hammett—would go to prison during the McCarthy era. Yet she remained unbowed. Moving, haunting, and as fast-paced as a novel, this is the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandson’s remarkable book, her long forgotten story is once again visible.
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African American
African American families
African American families -- Biography
African American women lawyers
African American women lawyers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography
Carter, Eunice Hunton
Carter, Stephen L
Carter, Stephen L., -- 1954- -- Family
Electronic books
Ethnology
Family
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
African American families
African American families -- Biography
African American women lawyers
African American women lawyers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography
Carter, Eunice Hunton
Carter, Stephen L
Carter, Stephen L., -- 1954- -- Family
Electronic books
Ethnology
Family
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
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African American families -- Biography
African American women lawyers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography
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Electronic books
Ethnology
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
African American families -- Biography
African American women lawyers -- Biography
Biographies
Biography
Carter, Eunice Hunton
Carter, Stephen L., -- 1954- -- Family
Electronic books
Ethnology
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
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Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
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Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster / Stephen L. Carter
Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster / Stephen L. Carter
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the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
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African American families
African American women lawyers
Biography
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Electronic books
Ethnology
Family
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
African American families
African American women lawyers
Biography
Carter, Eunice Hunton
Carter, Stephen L
Electronic books
Ethnology
Family
Lawyers
Organized crime
True crime
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