Dorothy Day's Life And Accomplishments

Dorothy Day was a social activist, Catholic convert, and an American journalist. Dorothy also demonstrated many of the Beatitudes throughout her life in all the works she did in her life. Dorothy is still very famous today throughout the world in the Catholic Church. Dorothy Day was born on November 8th, 1987 in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Dorothy was the third of five children. She raised in a Christian middle class family by her mother Grace Day and father John Day who both worked as journalists. Her family was Christian but rarely practiced their faith. When Dorothy was six her family moved to California, later in her early teens her family moved again and went to Chicago. When Dorothy was only eight years old she had an experience which
Dorothy was then religiously involved all throughout her teen years until she went to college. While in college religion was mainly cut out of her life. Dorothy went to the University of Illinois for two years studying journalism. After graduating college in 1916 Dorothy decided to move back to New York where her family had recently relocated from Chicago. She then took a job as a journalist for a a local newspaper company The Call. She while in New York she had joined the Industrial Workers of the World a labor union that helped led strikes to liberate women and children from working in factories. When she joined the organization Dorothy demonstrated the fourth beatitude Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they will be filled, because she always wanted to make and always wanted to laborers and help others in the workforce in the world just like, during this time she adopted the Bohemian lifestyle and in 1917 Dorothy went to Washington D.C. to picket the White House with other fellow suffragists. Shortly after the march started Dorothy was arrested for civil disobedience, she then spent a short time in a Virginia prison. After Dorothy was she
After her abortion she demonstrated the second beatitude Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted because Dorothy realized that she wanted to restart her religious conversion with God. American Magazine states that “The abusive Moise was likely a stand-in for Day’s emotionally distant father, and the abortion was Day’s attempt to hold on to him at any cost”(Krupa). Later on after she divorced Lionel, Dorothy married Barkeley Tobey a literary promoter but shortly after her honeymoon she told Barkeley that she didn’t love him anymore and left him and went back and dated Lionel for a couple of more months. In 1924 Dorothy married Forster Batterham a biologist and atheist, they later had a daughter Tamar Teresa in 1927 which she states that having her daughter was the happiest time in her life. American Magazine states “No human creature could receive or contain so vast a flood of love and joy as Dorothy often felt after the birth of her child”(Krupa). After she married her husband Forster her husband prompted her to reorient her life and become closer