Eunice Hunton Carter, first Black woman to work as a NYC prosecutor, helped take down powerful mobster

“Lucky” Luciano was no match for Carter, the prosecutor who years earlier became the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law.

A Black woman with a history of fighting for social justice has a little-known role in taking down one of history’s most notorious gangsters.

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