(031517) Burgess, David S. Fighting For Social Justice: The Life Story Of David Burgess. Detroit, MI: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 235 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Foreword by Bill Moyers. Burgess helped coal miners to build homes and organized sharecroppers and migrant workers as part of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. He was an active member of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and headed up the CIO State Council in Georgia. He served in the Foreign Service in India, with the Peace Corps in Indonesia, and in East Asia with UNICEF and later fought for affirmative action and public housing as a Christian minister in Newark, NJ ISBN: 0814328997
