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100 1 $aBurgess, David S.,$d1917-$einterviewee.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95060496
245 10 $aOral history interview with David Burgess, September 25, 1974 :$binterview E-0001, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
246 1 $iAlso cited as:$aInterview E-0001, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
246 30 $aInterview with David Burgess, September 25, 1974
250 $aElectronic ed.
260 $a[Chapel Hill, N.C.] :$bUniversity Library, UNC-Chapel Hill,$c2006.
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534 $pOriginal version:$tSouthern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview E-0001, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$nTranscribed by Sandra Betts.$nOriginal transcript: 42 p.
520 $aFollowing his early life in China as a child of missionary parents, David Burgess returned to the United States to attend Oberlin College and Union Theological Seminary, where he cultivated a social activist worldview. His religious beliefs dovetailed with his social activism: Burgess explains how his educational background initially led him to conscientiously object to World War II. However, his ideological intimacy with Union Theological Seminary professor Reinhold Niebuhr caused Burgess to enter the military draft. Because of health reasons, however, he was not admitted to the military. Burgess' relationship with Niebuhr also had a profound impact on his later labor activism. Burgess and his wife, Alice Stevens, eventually moved to south Florida to focus on southern labor issues. He worked tirelessly to improve the working conditions, political options, and housing status of southern workers. Burgess discusses obstacles to labor organizing he faced in the South, including charges that he was a communist. He discusses his organizational and administrative work with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), largely in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Burgess began to alter his perception of larger labor groups like the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the CIO. Working as a CIO administrator placed him in a difficult position as an enemy to both black and white workers. Burgess blames the lack of organizational strength of the CIO on Walter Reuther's leadership. As the CIO and AFL merged, Reuther failed to maintain labor organizing as the center focus of the labor group. Burgess came to view the AFL-CIO merger as the beginning of further racial and inter-union frictions and a decline in idealism. In 1955, Burgess requested a labor ambassadorship to Burma. Despite being rejected because of his affiliation with communist groups, Burgess conducted international labor work until the late 1970s. Burgess assesses the racial and social changes in the South following his return in 1977.
516 $aText (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 155.6 kilobytes, 203 megabytes.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 $aSystem requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
500 $aTitle from menu page (viewed on July 31, 2008).
500 $aInterview participants: David Burgess, interviewee; Jacquelyn Hall, interviewer; Bill Finger, interviewer.
500 $aDuration: 01:32:40.
500 $aThis electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
500 $aText encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
536 $aFunding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
600 10 $aBurgess, David S.,$d1917-$vInterviews.
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650 0 $aLabor unions$xOrganizing$zSouthern States.
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610 20 $aCongress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081625
650 0 $aLabor unions$zSouthern States$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aChurch work with the working class$zSouthern States.
650 0 $aLabor unions and communism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136731
610 20 $aFellowship of Southern Churchmen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93029510
655 7 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aHall, Jacquelyn Dowd,$einterviewer.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78061374
700 1 $aFinger, William R.,$einterviewer.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81052202
710 2 $aSouthern Oral History Program.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93053150
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bDocumenting the American South (Project)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96056901
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bLibrary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120860
740 0 $aOral histories of the American South.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6864476$3Documenting the American South full text and audio access
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