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Dorothy Day with her prison dress. In Nov. 1917 Day and 40 other women went to prison for protesting in front of the White House for women’s suffrage. Roughly handled at a workhouse, they went on a hunger strike. Finally they were freed by presidential order.In the 1930s, Day worked closely with Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
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