Mandy Carter

Mandy Carter began her long career as a human rights and nonviolent activist working with the War Resister's League (WRL) in San Francisco, beginning in 1969. A veteran of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People Campaign, Carter has been called "one of the nation's leading African American lesbian activists" by the National Organization of Women. She has served on countless planning committees for national and regional lesbian and gay pride marches--including the steering committee for...See more

Mandy Carter began her long career as a human rights and nonviolent activist working with the War Resister's League (WRL) in San Francisco, beginning in 1969. A veteran of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People Campaign, Carter has been called "one of the nation's leading African American lesbian activists" by the National Organization of Women. She has served on countless planning committees for national and regional lesbian and gay pride marches--including the steering committee for the historic 1987 March on Washington for Lesbians and Gays. As a staff member of the WRL's Southeast regional office throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Carter worked on the Boards of the National Stonewall Democratic Federation, the Triangle Foundation, Equal Partners in Faith, and Ladyslipper Music. See less