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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dorothy Day

1897 - 1980

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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. Day's conversion is described in her 1952 autobiography, The Long Loneliness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Day has received more than 2,281,479 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dorothy Day is the 356th most popular social activist (up from 359th in 2019), the 4,705th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,264th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 34

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  • 2.15

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  • 4.76

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dorothy Day ranks 356 out of 538. Before her are Natalya Estemirova, Venetia Burney, William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, and Mary Toft. After her are Jerry Rubin, Claudette Colvin, Harry Wu, Leona Vicario, Karl Ludwig Sand, and Malala Yousafzai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Dorothy Day ranks 176. Before her are Lya De Putti, Karel Lamač, Antonio Riberi, Shovkat Mammadova, Zenta Mauriņa, and Adolfo Baloncieri. After her are Louis Réard, Henry Cowell, André Marie, Isabelino Gradín, Jimmie Rodgers, and Moe Howard. Among people deceased in 1980, Dorothy Day ranks 155. Before her are Marian Spychalski, Juan García Oliver, Rachel Roberts, Pyotr Masherov, Jean Robic, and Boris Delaunay. After her are Maurice Genevoix, Mantovani, Boun Oum, Katherine Anne Porter, Graham Sutherland, and Ahmad Shukeiri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Day ranks 4,705 out of 18,182. Before her are Val Valentino (1956), Larry Coryell (1943), Jonathan Littell (1967), Janet Jagan (1920), Marilyn Horne (1934), and Michael Shannon (1974). After her are Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Gregg Allman (1947), Paul Shenar (1936), Grace Coolidge (1879), Leo Huberman (1903), and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dorothy Day ranks 43. Before her are Amelia Bloomer (1818), Black Elk (1863), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Edna Parker (1893), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), and Lee Radziwill (1933). After her are Jerry Rubin (1938), Claudette Colvin (1939), Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), and Catharine MacKinnon (1946).

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