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Eunice Hunton Carter - A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice (Hardcover)
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Eunice Hunton Carter - A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice (Hardcover)
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2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - 2021 BRONZE Winner for
Biography The fascinating biography of Eunice Hunton Carter, a
social justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman
prosecutor on the Luciano trial Eunice Hunton Carter rose to public
prominence in 1936 as both the only woman and the only person of
color on Thomas Dewey's famous gangbuster team that prosecuted
mobster Lucky Luciano. But her life before and after the trial
remains relatively unknown. In this definitive biography on this
trailblazing social justice activist, authors Marilyn S. Greenwald
and Yun Li tell the story of this unknown but critical pioneer in
the struggle for racial and gender equality in the twentieth
century. Carter worked harder than most men because of her race and
gender, and Greenwald and Li reflect on her lifelong commitment to
her adopted home of Harlem, where she was viewed as a role model,
arts patron, community organizer, and, later, as a legal advisor to
the United Nations, the National Council of Negro Women, and
several other national and global organizations. Carter was both a
witness to and a participant in many pivotal events of the early
and mid- twentieth century, including the Harlem riot of 1935 and
the social scene during the Harlem Renaissance. Using transcripts,
letters, and other primary and secondary sources from several
archives in the United States and Canada, the authors paint a
colorful portrait of how Eunice continued the legacy of the Carter
family, which valued education, perseverance, and hard work: a
grandfather who was a slave who bought his freedom and became a
successful businessman in a small colony of former slaves in
Ontario, Canada; a father who nearly single-handedly integrated the
nation's YMCAs in the Jim Crow South; and a mother who provided aid
to Black soldiers in France during World War I and who became a
leader in several global and domestic racial equality causes.
Carter's inspirational multi-decade career working in an
environment of bias, segregation, and patriarchy in Depression-era
America helped pave the way for those who came after her.
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