During what historical event was the Catholic Worker Movement established?
The Great Depression
World War II
The Civil Rights Movement
The Industrial Revolution
Answer
The Catholic Worker Movement was founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York City during the Great Depression. Day was a journalist and social activist who had been raised in a wealthy family, but had become disillusioned with the capitalist system. Maurin was a French peasant who had come to the United States to preach a message of Christian anarchism.
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