British Academy Book Prize 2022
Arts & Ideas
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Alexander Graham Bell - A Deafblind Activist
Alexander Graham Bell was a dominant figure in spreading the idea that deaf people should be brought under the sort of umbrella of hearing ways of being. He did believe that deaf people shouldn't intermarry, but he didn't believe that there should be laws restricting it. There's one figure who even now is well known, the famous deafblind activist Helen Keller,. Who is an ally to Bell in his quest.
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