Dorothy Day’s Early Years: Crusading Journalist in the Fetid Tenements of New York

It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in her autobiography The Long Loneliness, she described it like this: “The smell from the tenements, coming up from basements and Read More…

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