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Dorothy Day November 8, — November 29, 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. Day's conversion is described in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness.

Dorothy Day, (born Nov. 8, , New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 29, , New York City), U.S. journalist and social reformer.

In she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul 's nonviolent Silent Sentinels. In the s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement , [ 5 ] a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. She practiced civil disobedience , which led to additional arrests in , [ 6 ] , [ 7 ] and in at age As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper in , and served as its editor from until her death in In this newspaper, Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism , which she considered a third way between capitalism and socialism.

The Catholic Church has opened the cause for Day's possible canonization , which was accepted by the Holy See for investigation. For that reason, the Church refers to her with the title of Servant of God. Her parents were married in an Episcopal church in Greenwich Village.

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty () is a biography of the Catholic thought leader and radical pacifist by Day's granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.

Day and a sister and was the third oldest child. In , her father, a sportswriter devoted to horse racing, took a position with a newspaper in San Francisco. The family lived in Oakland, California , until the San Francisco Earthquake of destroyed the newspaper's facilities, and her father lost his job. From the spontaneous response to the earthquake's devastation, the self-sacrifice of neighbors in a time of crisis, Day drew a lesson about individual action and the Christian community.

The family relocated to Chicago.