Dorothy Day

Born on November 8, 1897, Dorothy Day was an American journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin in 1933. She was raised in a family that struggled financially and experienced poverty firsthand, which influenced her later work advocating for the poor and marginalized. Day's early life was marked by a tumultuous relationship with her mother and a conversion to Catholicism at age 18 after experiencing a miscarriage. She worked as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Call and The... AI Generated Content