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Intrigued by the Catholic faith for years, Dorothy Day converted in In , she co-founded The Catholic Worker , a newspaper promoting Catholic teachings that became very successful and spawned the Catholic Worker Movement, which tackled issues of social justice. Day also helped establish special homes to help those in need. Day was a radical during her time, working for such social causes as pacifism and women's suffrage.

She was the third of five children born to her parents, Grace and John, who worked as a journalist.

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The family moved to California for his job when Dorothy was 6 years old. They later lived in Chicago. A bright student, Day was accepted to the University of Illinois. She was enrolled there from to , but she abandoned her studies to move to New York City. There, Day became involved with a literary and liberal crowd in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood.

Playwright Eugene O'Neill was one of her friends at the time.