Helen Adams Keller ( – ) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.
Helen Keller Early Childhood Meeting Anne Sullivan Helen Keller's First Words Education and Literary Career Political and Social Activism Worldwide Celebrity Later Life Where Was Helen Keller Born? Portrait of Helen Keller as a young girl, with a white dog on her lap (August 1887) Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on . Her parents were Kate Adams ...
Helen Adams Keller / By Charles Whitman / Platinum print, 1904 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Most famous for her personal triumph over the limitations of both blindness and deafness, Helen Keller was one of the twentieth century’s leading advocates for individuals with disabilities. Born in Alabama in 1880, she was left both blind and deaf at nineteen
Helen Adams Keller (1880 — 1968) "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." Helen Keller contracted a disease at 19 months of age that left her blind and deaf. She became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She became a speaker, author and ...
Hall of Honor Inductee: Helen Adams Keller - U.S. Department of Labor
Helen Adams Keller was born on June, 27, 1880 to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller in the small, north Alabama town of Tuscumbia. When she was only 19 months old, she contracted a fever that would leave her both deaf and blind.