Helen Keller

Southern Exposure Contributor

Helen Keller, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880, is known to millions throughout the world for her triumph over multiple disabilities to learn and communicate in a world of hearing and seeing people. Her struggle and that of her beloved teacher, Anne Sullivan, was popularized in the movie "The Miracle Worker." What is less well-known is her championing of women's suffrage, workers' rights, socialism and anti-militarism. The following is from a speech at the Labor Forum in New York City on December 19, 1915. (1982)

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