The Eleventh Virgin

Dorothy Day's early years were marked by a bohemian lifestyle in New York City's Lower West Side during the late 1910s and early 1920s. As an editor for radical socialist publications such as The Liberator and The Masses, she actively participated in various leftist movements, including the Silent Sentinels' 1917 protest for women's suffrage outside the White House. Her youthful activism laid the groundwork for her later contributions to religious peace activism and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.