What we typically learn about Helen Keller is that she coped well with being deaf and blind. Some may have read her lyrical prose and may know she was the first deaf and blind student to graduate from Radcliffe. In fact, she finished with honors, having mastered Greek, Latin, German and French. It is well known that she campaigned around the world for the deaf and blind but fewer know that she stood up for the working class.
Helen Keller spoke out against the First World War and belonged to the socialist party. It’s common for that type of fact to be buried. It’s okay to say she championed those who were, like her, disabled, but not to mention that she wrote passionately about the direction industry was recklessly taking our world.
Helen Keller’s life would likely have been very different had her family not had money. But how extra fabulous that, with the opportunity afforded her, Keller chose to speak out for those less fortunate, warning of the writing on the wall, of where greed was leading.
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Marie Judson 