The Brooklyn Eagle attacked this author of Midstream for being a socialist, which prompted the response:  
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