"Like many radicals of the 1910s and 1920s, Keller was concerned with multiple social-justice..."

“Like many radicals of the 1910s and 1920s, Keller was concerned with multiple social-justice causes–she was a pacifist, a suffragist, a birth-control advocate, a supporter of the NAACP and a co-founder of the ACLU. But it was Keller’s socialist values that informed her position on other issues; she opposed World War I, for instance, on the grounds that it served capitalist interests, and helped create the ACLU as a way to protect striking workers from jail and deportation.”

- Helen Keller’s Forgotten Radicalism | TIME (via immlass)

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