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Birth Of Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. -
Helen contracts meningitis
Meningitis left her deaf and blind and she had difficulty making herself understood. She often became frustrated and threw temper tantrums -
Anne Suvillian becomes her teacher
Helen Keller's parents recruited her after Dr. Alexander Graham Bell adviced them to find a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind. -
Helen understands the meaning of words
Anne taught Helen to understand language through the combination of water from a pump on one hand and the spelling of "water" with the manual alphabet into her other hand. -
Helen learns to speak
She attended Horace Mann School, with the principal, Miss Sarah Fuller as her first speech teacher -
Helen writes "The Frost King"
It was so similar to The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby that people believed that she plagiarized it. An investigation revealed that she may have experienced a case of cryptogram- which was that she had read the book but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious -
Helen becomes a suffragist
Helen joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts -
The founding of Helen Keller International
Helen Keller and George Kessler founded Helen Keller International (HKI), which combats the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition -
Helen joins the American Foundation for the Blind
Helen was invited to be a spokesperson for the organization. She traveled extensively with Anne and Polly, giving speeches and raising funds for the blind and for related causes. -
Helen visits disabled soliers
Helen began her visits to the blinded, deaf, and disabled soldiers of World War II in military hospitals around the country. She called this the crowning experience of her life -
Helen retires from public life
She did so after a series of strokes which started three years earlier and spent the remainder of her life being cared for at her home. -
Helen Keller's death
She passes away 26 days before her 88th birthday in her sleep. Over 1,200 mourners attended the funeral at the National Cathedral.