and i remember learning about helen keller.dy learns about helen keller, you know, a disabled person who overcame her handicaps and became famous. but people don't learn in school and young people don't learn in school what we want them to learn what we do books like "a young people's history of united states," that helen keller was a socialist. she was a labor organizer. she refused to cross a picket line that was picketing a theater showing a play about her. and so there are these alternate heroes in american history. there's fannie lou hamer and bob moses. there are the heroes of the civil rights movement. there are a lot of people who are obscure, who are not known. we have it in this "young people's history." we have a young hero who was sitting on the bus in montgomery, alabama, refused to leave the front of the bus. and that was before rosa parks. i mean, rosa parks is justifiably famous for refusing to leave her seat and she got arrested and that was the beginning of the montgomery bus boycott and really the beginning o

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