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Eunice Carter: The Pioneering Black Prosecutor Who Brought Down Gangster “Lucky” Luciano
When social worker-turned-prosecutor Eunice Carter was handling prostitution cases in Harlem’s Women’s Court in 1935, she noticed something familiar about the accused women’s representation. They were the same lawyers and bail bondsmen whose names came up time and again in Mob cases. What’s more, the women all seemed to have been coached to offer the same explanations and defenses for their cases. Carter alerted crusading special prosecutor (and future governor...
Stars and Stripes and Donations
Unsure what to do with your patriotic feelings this year? Why not support organizations working to make the American legal industry more equitable for lawyers of color.
The Diverse Attorney Pipeline Program aims to rectify the continued decline of underrepresented women of color in the legal profession by equipping women of color law students with intensive professional development, academic coaching, attorney and law student mentoring, and summer...
All Myra Colby Bradwell wanted to do was become a lawyer. In an era when women make up about 40% of practicing attorneys, this would seem to be an achievable goal. But when Myra, born in 1831, passed the Illinois Bar exam in 1869, she was promptly denied the right to practice law by the Illinois Supreme Court. Students of common law...