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Interview no. | U-0559 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.18. Long Civil Rights Movement: Heirs to a Fighting Tradition |
Project description | The Heirs Project is a multi-phased oral history initiative that explores the stories and traditions of social justice activism in North Carolina through in-depth interviews with 14 highly respected activists and organizers. Selected for the integrity and high level of skill in their work dedicated to social justice, the interviewees represent a diversity of age, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. These narratives capture the richness of a set of activists with powerful perspectives on social justice, political activism, and similar visions of the common good. The stories shared by this cohort of activists represent personal moments of transition and transformation, tales of empowerment and exhaustion, and organizing successes and defeats. The Project seeks to highlight the history of progressive political action in North Carolina through the stories and experiences of those who pushed for change. |
Date | July 11 2007 |
Interviewee | Carter, Mandy. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1948 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Christian Coalition and Anti-Gay Platform-Jerry Falwell, Alveda Celeste King, Ralph Reed; Marriage Equality; Faith based LGBTQ organizing; Participation on the Democratic National Convention of 1996; Development of the Leadership Forum in North Carolina-influence from Los Angeles; Difference between the Leadership Forum and the Justice Coalition in North Carolina; Promise Keepers and Anti-Women Protest-unity of gay and non-gay religious activists; Activism in Miami-Miami for Florida Vote/ Equal Voice; Personal exhaustion from organizing; Suzanne Pharr as a role model; Effects of “workaholicism”; Collaboration with the Massachusetts Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality; National Association of Black and White Men Together in New Orleans, La.; Health care as an activist and LGBTQ community member; Work with the Freedom to Marry Project in Boston, Mass.; Effects of September 11, 2001 on organizing efforts for LGBTQ issues; Importance of the media-magazines, television, and radio. |
Citation | Interview with Mandy Carter by Bridgette Burge, July 11 2007 U-0559, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0559_Audio |