Dorothy Day - Short Biography

Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8th, 1897 Dorthy Day was a very influential

person in the catholic economic lifestyle. Her father, John Day was out of work when she was

little, which gave her empathy for other then, and later on in life because she also knows what

its like to be there. When she moved to Chicago her life turned for the better, Her father became

sports editor of a major Chicago newspaper. In 1914 she received

a scholarship for the

university of Illinois in Urbana. She wasent very social in school, keeping mostly to herself.

Two years later she dropped out to move to new yourk and become a newspaper reporter.

In 1917 she was arrested for protesting women's

exclusion from the electorate outside the

capitol and was thrown into prison only to be released soon after. This was first of many

arrests in Dorothys future.

As a child Dorothy went to an Episcopical Church from time to time. She also

attended St.Josephs in New York sometimes, but definatley not regularly.She was really

interested in the catholic church and what it had to offer but she really didn't

know much

about it. She had a few catholic friends who she hung out with and stuff during college

and afterwards.

When she had a kid named Tamar, she decided to make her a catholic. She had

Tamar baptised and then she herself was baptised, deciding to devote her life to good things.

She met Peter Maurin wheo was twenty years older and was an experienced forrmer catholic

brother. They talked and listened, and Peter said Dorothy should start