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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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic ...
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. A writer and journalist by trade, ...
Dorothy Day was an activist who worked for such social causes as pacifism and women's suffrage through the prism of the Catholic Church.
Feb 22, 2024 · In 1932, Dorothy Day, a journalist, bohemian socialist, and recent convert to Catholicism, met the French-born Peter Maurin.
Apr 6, 2020 · But Dorothy Day was always equal parts “Catholic” and “worker.” Many followers of the Pope found her politics inconvenient and offensive; many ...