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She was born on April 14, 1886 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.
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Her brother died.
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Anne had trachoma and she became blind.
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She lost her mother at the age of 8 and her father became alcoholic.
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1876 her family sent Anne and her brother to Tewksbury, an Almshouse
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At the age of 14, Anne was humiliated because she had never been taught to read or write.
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She was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind, and there she received special treatment that restore her sight. -
In the school she met her friend Laura Bridgman, who was deaf blind and have not sensed of taste or smell, She learned the sign language to communicate with her. -
She moved to Tuscumbia, Alabama. There she met her student Helen Keller, a girl who had become deaf and blind due to illness. -
She got married to John Albert Macy -
In 1931 Temple University gave Anne Sullivan an honorary degree. -
at the age of seventy, Anne Sullivan died in Forest Hills, New York, with Helen at her side.
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the film The Sullivan Miracle was released, which narrated Helen’s beginnings and was very successful. -
A writer named Nella Brandy published a biography called Anne Sullivan Macy: The story behind Helen Keller