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LeopoldBloom · M
Helen Keller was still very well-known when I was a kid in the 70s. I get the impression that kids today probably don't know who she was.
Most people aren't aware that Keller was a Swedenborgian, a Christian sect that followed the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg believed that the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred. Politically, Keller was a socialist and was a founding member of the ACLU. She was also a member of the International Workers of the World (the "Wobblies,") supported communist presidential candidate Eugene Debs, and was an opponent of Woodrow Wilson.
Keller was the first deafblind person to get a bachelor's degree, and wrote 12 books. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson.
Most people aren't aware that Keller was a Swedenborgian, a Christian sect that followed the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg believed that the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred. Politically, Keller was a socialist and was a founding member of the ACLU. She was also a member of the International Workers of the World (the "Wobblies,") supported communist presidential candidate Eugene Debs, and was an opponent of Woodrow Wilson.
Keller was the first deafblind person to get a bachelor's degree, and wrote 12 books. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson.