This Alabama native helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and publicly supported the NAACP.  
This Alabama native helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and publicly supported the NAACP.  The Brooklyn Eagle attacked this author of Midstream for being a socialist, which prompted the response:  "Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent."  For 10 points, name this Radcliffe-educated author of The Story of My Life and pupil of Anne Sullivan.
This Alabama native helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and publicly supported the NAACP.  
Helen Keller