Women’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration: Exploring the Activism of Helen Keller

Join Helen Selsdon, Archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, in a discussion about Helen Keller’s activism, as we view a copy of one of her speeches and recognize the centennial anniversary of the 19th amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote.  To quote Keller, “There are no such things as ‘divine, immutable, inalienable rights.’ Rights are things which we get when we are strong enough to make our claim to them good. Today women are asserting their rights, tomorrow nobody will be foolhardy enough to question them.”  Friend of the Coes and beneficiary of Mai Coe’s father, H.H. Rogers, Keller kept close ties to the family which is reflected in correspondences including a sympathy letter to Mai Coe after the death of her father.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archive

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