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Helen Keller
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On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan arrived at the Keller household in Tuscumbia, Alabama to work with Helen Keller. Anne brought a doll for Helen as a gift, but immediately started manually spelling d-o-l-l in her hand.
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Anne Sullivan’s initial approach to teaching Helen was to place an object in one of Helen’s hands while manually spelling the word in the other. This was the way Helen learned words and their meaning.
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Alexander Graham Bell spent the 1870s working on hearing devices for the deaf. Helen Keller’s parents reached out to him when Helen was a child, and he in turn contacted the Perkins Institute. The Perkins Institute then sent Anne Sullivan to work with Helen.
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Mark Twain asserted that Helen Keller and Napoleon Bonaparte were the most interesting people to come out of the 19th century. He often met with Helen, and helped arrange funding for her college education.
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In 1904, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College. While in college, she began writing her memoir, The Story of My Life.
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Helen and Anne traveled the world, involving themselves in many social causes and meeting famous leaders. Helen Keller helped start the ACLU and was a known suffragist, earning her a reputation at the time as a political radical.
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President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace were lifelong advocates for deaf children. Helen Keller often met with the President to help raise money and awareness for various foundations.
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Helen Keller often visited various schools for the blind to work with children. Here she is reading braille with students in Switzerland.
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She met with George Barnard Shaw at Lady’s Astors in 1932. He told her how much he admired her writing, not realizing at first that she was deaf and blind.
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Helen Keller with Frank Sinatra in 1944.
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Able to feel vibrations of the throat, Helen learned to speak by placing one hand on a person’s throat and the other on the mouth.
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President Eisenhower met with Helen Keller throughout the 1950s to discuss aid efforts for soldiers blinded in World War II.
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Patty Duke won both a Tony Award and an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.
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Enthusiastic about reading and writing, she wrote many articles and 12 books.
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Helen Keller lacked the senses of sight and hearing, so she used highly developed senses of touch and smell in order to comprehend the world. She died on June 1, 1968, at the age of 87.