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Invisible : the forgotten story of the Black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
Title:
Invisible : the forgotten story of the Black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
ISBN:
9781250121974
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Summary:
Eunice Hunton Carter, Stephen Carters grandmother, was raised in a world of stultifying expectations about race and gender, yet by the 1940s, her professional and political successes had made her one of the most famous black women in America. But her triumphs were shadowed by prejudice and tragedy. Greatly complicating her rise was her difficult relationship with her younger brother, Alphaeus, an avowed Communist who together with his friend Dashiell Hammettwould go to prison during the McCarthy era. Yet she remained unbowed. Moving, haunting, and as fast-paced as a novel, Invisible tells the true story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of her time. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandsons remarkable book, her long forgotten story is once again visible.
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