Dorothy Day Research Paper
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn but raised mostly in Chicago. In 1916, her family moved to New York and she went with them, to pursue a career as a revolutionary journalist. She became a regular correspondent for publications such as the Call and the New Masses. She got involved in the issues of the day including women's rights, free love, and birth control. In 1917 she joined women in front of the White House, who were protesting treatment of women suffragists in jail; she wound up serving thirty days in jail. After undergoing a painful abortion and giving birth to another child from her lover, Foster Batterham, he abandoned her rather than marry. Day embraced Catholicism, and clinged to it strongly for the rest of her life. In the years