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Eunice Carter: Brings Down the Mob

Eunice Hunton Carter, 1899-1970, might have seemed an unlikely hero to bring down the “chairman of the board” of the Mafia’s Five Families of New York, but everyone knew she was smart. Carter was the first African-American woman to work as a prosecutor in the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office. As a key […]