Dorothy Day was not just a Catholic Worker Founder, but also a voice for women. Dorothy was a feminist and even went on a hunger strike just for women. She always went to women's peaceful protests and spoke for womankind and slaves, sometimes getting arrested for doing so. Dorothy Day's actions affect us today by giving everyone freedom.
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In her early life, Dorothy Day fought for women's social justice and held up signs at protests. When she became an adult, Dorothy started the Catholic Worker Foundation and used her guidance from her Catholic experience to help others. Dorothy was always a pacifist and before starting her foundation, was a progressive journalist.
Dorothy Day got a job as a reporter for a local newspaper. Dorothy Day also went in a protest against the White House. Day got arrested and was sent to a Workhouse. After she got released, she started training as a nurse but couldn't put her training to use. Dorothy got married to Berkeley Tobey and had a child named Tamar Theresa Day. Dorothy baptized her child and she herself became a Catholic a few months later. During the Great Depression she and a reporter named Peter Maurin published The Catholic Worker that grouped together Catholic women and men. Dorothy Day continued her own acts of conscience and protests for peace for the rest of her life. Day died in 1980 after an inspirational life for others.
Dorothy Day went to college at the University at Illinois, after getting a scholarship for Journalism from 1914-1916. Dorothy only went to college for two years because she wanted to live out her beliefs, in the church. Dorothy left college in 1916 and moved to New York with her family. Dorothy depended on her father for money to support their house, but received some domestic work and made money herself.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was moved to Oakland, California when she was 6 because of her dad's job. Dorothy Day's father lost his job and his home due to the San Francisco Earthquake. Dorothy had to move a third time to Chicago, Illinois and stayed there for 12 years. Dorothy was o embarrassed of her family's loss of money that she would walk into an expensive apartment complex after school so her friends would think that Dorothy lived there.
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