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Helen Keller

By AGED 3033

  • Born

    Born
    Born June 17, 1880. After a fever at 19 months old, she went dead and blind.

  • Speech

    Speech
    Helen Keller started speech classes at a young age with her mentor Anne. She started speech classes at horse band school for the deaf in 1890. She worked at her speech for more than 25 years so the world could hear her.

  • Helen and Mark

    Helen and Mark
    Helen Keller and Mark Twain we’re unlikely pairing due their age difference. They were seen as the “perfect pair” from peers. They met when she was a preteen and they inspired each other. Twain treated Helen like nothing was wrong with her and was one of her biggest encouragers.

  • Harvard

    Harvard
    In 1904, Helen Keller was the first deaf blind graduate from Radcliffe College, now known as Harvard University. She obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree.

  • Speeches

    Speeches
    Around 1910, her popularity grew because of her speeches across the United States. Her included many human rights topics but mainly she spoke about rights for people with disabilities.

  • Achievements

    Achievements
    Helen Keller co founded the American Civil Liberties Union, was an early supporter of the NAACP, and helped with early proponents of birth control.

  • ACLU

    ACLU
    The American Civil Liberties Union are the guardians of liberty and they defend and preserved individual rights and freedom granted by the Constitution and the United States laws.

  • Education Views

    Education Views
    “ education should train the child to use his brains, to make himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shut him into the scrap heap” -Helen Keller Sep. 1934
    She believed every child had a right to an education no matter their color, disability, religion, or family.

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Presidential Medal of Freedom
    Pres. Lyndon Johnson gave the Presidential Medal of Honor to Helen Keller. This is the nation’s highest civil honor. She was given the award for her “ contribution to the security or national interest of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors“

  • Communist

    Communist
    Fun fact: Helen Keller was perceived as to radical and was on the FBI’s radar for ties with the communist party. She is believed to be communist but was confirmed socialist.

  • Death

    Death
    She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968. She was 87 years old and loved by many.