Dorothy Day
American journalist and social activist
Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. Wikipedia
Born: November 8, 1897, Brooklyn Heights, New York, NY
Died: November 29, 1980 (age 83 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Children: Tamar Teresa Day Hennessy
Parents: John Day and Grace Satterlee Day
Siblings: John I. Day II and Donald S. Day
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