Eunice Hunton 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 assistant to special prosecutor Thomas Dewey, she is credited with establishing key facts in the prosecution of mobster Charlie “Lucky” Luciano. After a brief period as a social worker, Carter’s determination to use the law as an instrument for change grew stronger. In 1927, she enrolled in Fordham University School of Law as one of the few women and even fewer African Americans in her class. She faced both racial and gender biases but overcame them, becoming the first African American woman to graduate from Fordham Law in 1932. In 1947, Carter was one of fifteen American women invited to attend the first International Assembly on Women in Paris to discuss “human and educational problems affecting peace and freedom.” She remained busy and active in the NAACP & YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) amongst many other national and international organizations and committees. Eunice Hunton Carter died in New York City on January 25, 1970, at the age of seventy. Much respect to her lasting legacy.