Helen Keller was a Socialist, Peace Activist and member of the ACLU

[mzmolly]

I just learned that today.
Wondered how many people were aware?

She sounds like an amazing woman all around.

Helen and her friends were very interested in political ideas. In 1909, Helen joined the suffragist movement. Suffragists wanted equal treatment for women, including the right to vote—which was granted in 1920. In the same year, she also became a socialist. Helen believed that society should be based on people's needs, not on their power or money. Over the years, Helen would be criticized for her political opinions.

http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkgallery.asp?frameid=31

Helen was continually drawn to the cause of the underdog. As a pacifist, she protested against the First World War and was one of the early members of the American Civil Liberties Union. In the early 1930s, as America was dealing with the Depression, Helen got on the radio in New York to discuss the needs and rights of the unemployed and the poor.

http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkgallery.asp?frameid=33

[lostnfound]

1. The convenient amnesia..Martin Luther King, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein

are all held up as heroes in school, but their ideas about government, class, or war are silenced.

[mzmolly]

3. Yes, isn't that amazing?

:(

[trof]

2. And she's on the Alabama quarter.

I will never know who snuck that by our right wingers, but it gives me great pleasure.

[mzmolly]

4. LOL.

I didn't know that either..

[mzmolly]

5. kick

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