A review of Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, a book on the life of alumna Eunice Carter ’32, was published in the New York Law Journal.
Eunice’s aspiration was to become a judge. As sensitively recounted by the author, she was frustrated in this quest by two powerful historical forces. First, Harlem became increasingly Democratic starting in the 1930s. Second, Eunice’s brother gained notoriety as a communist. Thus, Eunice became an indirect victim of McCarthyism. To her dying day, Eunice was convinced that she missed out on a judgeship and other prestigious government posts because her brother was a communist.