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082 0 4 _a340.092
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGreenwald, Marilyn
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEunice Hunton Carter :
_bA Lifelong Fight for Social Justice /
_cMarilyn Greenwald, Yun Li.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b19 b/w illustrations
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Heirs to the Struggle --
_t2. Free But Not Equal --
_t3. One Vision in Her Eye, One Cry in Her Soul --
_t4. The Business of Reaching New Heights --
_t5. From Squash Racquet to Racket Squasher --
_t6. “I Must Save My Sister” --
_t7. Getting Lucky: The People v. Charles Luciano --
_t8. “Making History for the Race” --
_t9. “A Prelude to Greater Tasks” --
_t10. The Aftermath --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tSelected Titles from Empire State Edition
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAfrican American civil rights workers
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAfrican American women lawyers
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen social reformers
_vBiography.
650 4 _aBiography.
650 4 _aGender & Sexuality.
650 4 _aRace & Ethnic Studies.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
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700 1 _aLi, Yun
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293759?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823293759
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