Eunice Cater

William and Addie Hunton thought they had found a safe haven in the post-civil war South in Atlanta, Georgia. They settled in and started a family adding Eunice and Alphonso. With the growth in population and upward economic movement of the Negro, tensions rose. By 1906 the safe haven had turned into a political battleground with the Negro population used as a political football, singled out for destruction. The family survived the 1906 Atlanta race riots. At seven years old Eunice and her family moved north to New York City. They settled into their new life, William continued working for the YMCA, Addie went onto a career in public service, primary working with Negro women issues. Eunice and Alphonso accelerated at a public school. From high school, Eunice went on to earn a Masters and Bachelors degrees in four years from Smith University. Newly married and pregnant found Eunice attempting to adjust to domestic life in Harlem. The wife of one of the most successful dentists in the city was not satisfying for Eunice. Against her husband's wishes, Eunice enrolled at Fordham law school. Going on to receive a law degree in five years, all the time being a mother to Lisle Jr. Domestic life was not satisfying for Eunice. Involving herself in the Campaign of Hoover and La Guardia and of Hubert Delany for Harlem House of Representatives. Eunice's abilities as a "volunteer assistant," in the Women's Court, did not go unnoticed. Thomas Dewey recruited her for his fight against organized crime. It was Eunice's investigations that led to Thomas Dewey's successful prosecution of Lucky Luciano.