Day and a group of labor lawyers go to San Francisco's San Quentin prison to defend three innocent men convicted of the murder of an engineer on a cargo ship in 1936
"We'll do what we can... take these unoccupied buildings to start some hospices. A place to live and something to eat now, then we can plan on getting back the land"
Dorothy Day writes a dispatch from a December 1932 convention of farmers in Washington, D.C., lobbying for emergency legislation in the face of the Depression.