| | Unfortunately the movie stops before it tells the story of the rest of Helen Keller's life. She became a outspoken advocate for suffrage, civil rights, and socialism, writing and speaking frequently on the topic and praising the emergence of communism in europe.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/index.htm
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Kell171.shtml
I have also read accounts of her life that indicate that she was extremely dependent on and controlled by her teachers and others. At one point Helen Keller fell in love with journalist Peter Fagan and her teacher and parents caused the relationship to end when they discovered they were planning to marry.
Ash
"Missing from her curriculum vitae are her militant socialism and the fact that she once had to be protected by six policemen from an admiring crowd of 2,000 people in New York after delivering a fiery speech protesting America's entry into World War I. The war, she told her audience, to thunderous applause, was a capitalist ploy to further enslave the workers. As in her lifetime, Helen Keller's public image remains one of an angelic, sexless, deaf-blind woman who is smelling a rose as she holds a Braille book open on her lap."
- from a Dorothy Herrmann biography
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