Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
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Dorothy Day Baptism and Confirmation records from the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Chicago, c. 1911
Dorothy Day and sister Della outside the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Chicago, circa 1910
Peter Maurin, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Day in 1933
Day in 1934
Rose Hill Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli, New York, 1964-1978Awards 6
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1980 · aged 83
Written about in
30 languages
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