David Kirk (activist)

Davey "David" Kirk (March 12, 1935 – May 23, 2007) was an American priest, as well as a civil rights and anti-poverty activist who founded New York City's Emmaus House. He was reared a Baptist, but converted to the Melkite Catholic Church and later the Orthodox Church in America a few years before his death.

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