Invisible: Stephen L. Carter

The bestselling author on the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America’s most powerful mobster.

Eunice Hunton Carter was a granddaughter of slaves, a graduate of Smith College and Fordham Law, and an African-American attorney—an unlikely combination in 1930s New York. When special prosecutor Thomas Dewey picked 20 lawyers to clean up the city’s organized crime, she was the only non-white man on the team. There she devised the strategy that ultimately resulted in the conviction of lucky Luciano, one of the most powerful mob bosses in history. 

Carter’s success made her  one of the most famous black women in the country in the 1940s, but prejudice and tragedy caused her star to fade with time. Now her grandson, bestselling writer and Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, has made her long-forgotten story visible to all.

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