Helen Keller A Few words about

 Helen Keller was an American actress political activist and lecturer. She was the first-deaf blind who got her degree of Fine Arts. Her birthday on 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. As a prolific author, Keller traveled around the world and clearly stated her opposition to the war. She participated in the campaign for women's suffrage, workers' rights, socialism as well as other progressive purposes.  Keller was not born blind and deaf, she got an illness 19 months after her birth. Her only friend was Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the cook, who was able to create a sign-language for her. At the age of six or seven she knew meanings to communicate with her family.  Sullivan taught Keller the method Tadoma , contact with the lips and throat of others as they talked, and combined the spelling with the fingers in the palm of child's hand. Later Keller learned French, Greek and Latin. Also…

 Starting in May 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the deaf and also Horace Mann School for the deaf. In 1896 she returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies before winning her entry into college Radcliffe. Some photos!

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