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Helen Adams Keller is born in Tuscumbia, AL
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Illness
Helen became ill with a high fever. After the illness she was blind, deaf and mute. -
Family travels to Boston
Helen and her parents travel to the Perkins School for the Blind for help. -
Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan comes to Alabama to work with Helen -
Helen begins attending school
Helen begins Horace Mann School for the Deaf to learn to speak -
Helen graduates from college
Helen graduates from Radcliffe College; she is the first student who was deaf and blind to receive a bachelor of arts degree -
Helen writes her first book - The Story of My Life
With the help of Anne Sullivan, and Anne's husband John Macy, Helen wrties about the first 21 years of her life from her illness to graduating from college -
The Story of My Life is made into a movie
After the success of The Miracle Worker as a play, the movie The Miracle Worker was made based on The Story of My LIfe -
Helen enters the Hall of Fame
Helen is inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame -
Helen passes away
Just before turning 88 years old Helen dies
