Dorothy Day
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About
Journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 193. She was a devout Catholic who used religion to promote women's suffrage and pacifism.
Before fame
She was a journalist for several progressive cause magazines when she converted to Catholicism at age 30, and co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper.
Trivia
She promoted in the pages of her paper not only Catholic teachings, but social causes; she believed in them strongly enough to be arrested and go on a hunger strike for them.
Family life
She was born in New York City.
Associated with
She worked closely with both Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to promote women's suffrage.
