Early Life
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1897
Who is Dorothy Day?
This Christian denomination did Dorothy Day join in 1927.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
These people were among Dorothy Day's main concerns throughout her life.
Who are the poor and homeless?
This newspaper did Dorothy Day help start in 1933.
What is The Catholic Worker?
This year Dorothy Day died.
What is 1980?
This was Dorothy Days career before she became famous for her activism.
What is journalism?
This event in her life helped inspire her conversion to Catholicism.
What is the birth of her daughter?
Dorothy Day supported this method of protest instead of using violence.
What is nonviolent protest?
This French-born activist helped Dorothy Day establish the Catholic Worker Movement.
Who is Peter Maurin?
This movement continues her work of serving the poor and promoting peace.
What is the Catholic Worker Movement?
What university did Dorothy Day attend before leaving in 1916
What is the University of Illinois?
This religious belief encouraged Dorothy Day to care for people living in poverty.
What is the belief that every person has dignity and worth?
This major economic crisis began in 1929 and increased poverty across America.
What is the Great Depression?
This year marks the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement.
What is 1933?
Dorothy Day is remembered for promoting these two major causes.
What are peace and social justice?
This was the name of Dorothy Day's daughter
Who is Tamar Teresa Batterham Hennessy?
This book is Dorothy Day's autobiography about her spiritual journey and life experiences.
What is The Long Loneliness?
Dorothy Day supported these organizations that fought for workers' rights and better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
These places welcomed people in need and offered food, shelter, and community.
What are Houses of Hospitality?
This is the title the Catholic Church uses for Dorothy Day while considering her cause for sainthood.
What is Servant of God?
Before becoming Catholic, Dorothy Day worked for newspapers that supported these political and social ideas.
What are socialist and radical reform ideas?
Dorothy Day believed Christians should follow this teaching by loving enemies and rejecting violence.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Dorothy Day believed people should do more than provide charity; they should also work to change these underlying causes of poverty.
What are social and economic injustices?
These three principles were central to the Catholic Worker Movement: welcoming those in need, rejecting violence, and choosing a simple life.
What are hospitality, nonviolence, and voluntary poverty?
This is the broader lesson Dorothy Day's life teaches about faith.
What is putting faith into action by serving others and standing up for justice?