Helen Keller: deaf-blind pioneer, advocate and ‘just like all of us’
A new feature-length documentary about Helen Keller — the first film of its kind made by blind and low-vision filmmakers — reframes the deaf-blind activist as both a pioneering advocate and an ordinary person.
What was Helen Keller like? The deaf-blind hero, best known as a pioneer for disability rights as chronicled in “The Miracle Worker,” achieved many things in her life: She was the first deaf-blind woman to graduate from college, was a Goodwill Ambassador for peace after World War II, a labor rights advocate, a suffragist, and much more.