Dallas Adult Entertainment: Helen Keller: radical
Keller’s 1912 essay “How I Became a Socialist,” which addresses attacks on her by media outlets including the New York Times, and other writings are available on the web page “Helen Keller Reference Archive” and in her book Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision at Google Books.
Keller also joined the leftist Industrial Workers of the World (known as the IWW or the Wobblies) and wrote in a 1916 article entitled ”Why I became an IWW“ that “I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness.” The last sentence refers to prostitution and syphilis, the latter a leading cause of blindness at the time.