Selections from Her Writings and Readings by Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social crusader, and fervent Catholic convert who lived from 1897 to 1980. She founded the Catholic Worker in 1933 with Peter Maurin, a community dedicated to direct relief for the poor and homeless, solidarity with the dispossessed, and social transformation. Day took part in labor fights in the 1930s, the Civil Rights movement, and nonviolent, pacifist opposition to militarism in WWII, Vietnam, and the Cold War, and her claim for canonization in the Catholic Church is still pending. Robert Ellsberg was a member of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker community in New York City for the last five years of her life (1975-80), serving as managing editor of The Catholic Worker for two years. He is also the author of All Saints and the editor of Dorothy Day: Collected Writings and All the Way to Heaven: Dorothy Day's Selected Letters.