Alabama quarter to feature Helen Keller Keller's name will be featured in both English and Braille. Surprising that Alabama picked an education theme for its quarter, but maybe there's hope for this old world yet.
Helen Keller = socialist The fact that this is happening in Alabama only makes this so much more delicious.
Your link describes one of the reasons most of the Little House On The Prairie-esque stories about Keller end before she reaches adulthood, and why Annie Sullivan plays more of a role in them than Keller herself. One of the reasons for her transformation into a "radical" is that she realized, FWIW, that few of her deaf and blind counterparts would have the same opportunities for the private and special tutelage her own parents were able to afford. My father's family grew up almost literally within a stone's throw of her birthplace, and I have three aunt/uncle couples and several cousins who still live there. For someone almost as famous around those parts as Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis, it's notable that few people within the community were made aware of her political views while in school. They got the inspirational story of the triumph over physical handicaps in elementary school, rather than the biography of the human being (which would have included the former anyhow) in high school. Her birthplace wasn't much of a big deal until the 80s. Then again, it is Alabama.