Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
364.1092 CARTER
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364.1092 CARTER
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LC Subjects
African American authors -- Biography.
African American authors.
African American families -- Biography.
African American families.
African American lawyers.
African American women lawyers -- Biography.
African American women lawyers.
Biographies.
Carter, Eunice Hunton, -- Biography.
Carter, Stephen L., -- 1954- -- Family.
Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York.
Organized crime -- New York (State)
African American authors.
African American families -- Biography.
African American families.
African American lawyers.
African American women lawyers -- Biography.
African American women lawyers.
Biographies.
Carter, Eunice Hunton, -- Biography.
Carter, Stephen L., -- 1954- -- Family.
Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York.
Organized crime -- New York (State)
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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 the 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, Stephen Carter'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 book] tells 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."--Dust jacket.