Helen Keller
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Disabilities, Handicapped People
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, Women’s History, American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Blind and deaf since early childhood, Keller exemplified by her life of activism the full empowerment potential of disabled persons who receive appropriate adaptive education. She served as a spokesperson and fund-raiser for the benefit of deaf and blind people.
Early Life
Helen Adams Keller was born in a small town in northern Alabama to Kate Adams Keller and Captain Arthur Keller, a Confederate Civil War veteran. At nineteen months, Helen suffered an illness that left her blind, deaf, and eventually mute. She remained locked in this...
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