Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of American Century

Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of American CenturyAfter growing up in a conservative middle class Republican household and working several years as a left wing journalist, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for the next fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic, political radical, and a rebel who courted controversy, she attracted three generations of admirers. A believer in civil disobedience, Day went to jail several times protesting the nuclear arms race. She

Withers was working as an informant for the FBI

“I cannot live without books

and Nate Powell

Berry cites Indigenous peoples’ protests against the Dakota pipeline during Barack Obama’s administration as a modern example of successful resistance built on earlier actions

Ships rolled

to name a few

Jefferson's personal library of 6

for improvement

Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love

Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath

Rosa Parks’s personal papers were unavailable to the public

and how differently