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EUNICE CARTER
Eunice Carter was the first Black female lawyer and first Black female Asst. District Attorney (New York). Starting off as a social worker she decided to become a lawyer and she put her degree to good use.
Thanks to her prostitution racketeering case, Carter was instrumental in implicating mobster, Lucky Luciano and having him prosecuted. She took her groundbreaking strategy to D. A., Thomas Dewey, and gave him all the ammunition he needed.
Dewey was grateful and kept Carter by his side often receiving legal advice from her publicly as well as privately. She was active at the United Nations and served on the Executive Committee of the International Council of Women as well as the Pan-African Congress in the 1920s.
