Catholic Worker Movement Collected Records
Scope and Contents
Primarily printed materials; includes form letters from Dorothy Day; leaflets, serials, and pamphlets; one folder each about the Catholic Worker Movement in Des Moines, IA and Philadelphia PA.
Dates
- Creation: 1936-
Language of Material
Materials are in English.
Biographical / Historical
Founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933; a faith-based, grassroots movement for peace and social justice through nonviolent direct action; operates farms and communal houses, represented today by more than one hundred loosely affiliated "houses of hospitality" (including several in Australia, Canada, Europe, and Mexico) in which the poor and homeless are welcomed as guests.
Extent
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Catholic Worker Movement.
Subject
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 (Person)
- Maurin, Peter (Person)
Topical
- Catholic Worker Movement
- Church and Social Problems -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Church work with the homeless -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Church work with the Poor -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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