Professor Catherine Kudlick Discusses Hellen Keller’s Social and Political Activism

Author: Haley Moss, Teen Vogue
March 14, 2022

“It was her bread and butter to say what people wanted to hear around blindness issues,” Catherine Kudlick, a professor of history and the director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, tells Teen Vogue. “She pushed back some, but the question with Helen Keller is always, how much of it was she allowed to say? So she compromised in some ways, and yet she was this incredible force.”

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