So she pointed out that a lot of times people went blind from accidents on the shop floor. Sascha Cohen, who teaches American Studies at Brandeis University, and wrote the 2015 TIME article “Helen Keller’s Forgotten Radicalism”, argues that Keller’s involvement in workers’ rights can help students understand the roots of the workers’ rights and inequality issues that persist today: “The Progressive Era when she was sort of working politically in different organizations was a period of rapid industrialization and so there were these new conditions in which workers were subjected to this sort of heightened inequality and even danger and risk physically. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.īut they don’t learn that she co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 that she was an early supporter of the NAACP, and an opponent of lynchings that she was an early proponent of birth control. Capitol, there is even a bronze statue of 7-year-old Keller at a water pump, inspired by the movie’s depiction of a real milestone in Keller’s life in which she recognizes water coming out of the pump after Sullivan spells the word “water” into the youngster’s hand. Keller has become a worldwide symbol for children to overcome any obstacle. Students may watch the Oscar-winning 1962 movie The Miracle Worker, which depicts these milestones as miraculous. Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. In the U.S., if American schoolchildren learn about any person with disabilities, they learn that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once had polio and used a wheelchair in office, and they learn about Deafblind activist Helen Keller. 3, the history of people with disabilities is still not fully taught in schools. While the world marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec.
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