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Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Helen Keller holding a magnolia, ca
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Born

Helen Adams Keller
June 27, 1880
Tuscumbia, Alabama, U
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Died

June 1, 1968 (aged 87)
Arcan Ridge
Easton, Connecticut, U
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Occupation Author, political activist, lecturer
Education

Radcliffe College[1]

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political
activist, and lecturer
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[2][3] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation
imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned
to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play
and film The Miracle Worker
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Her birthday on June 27 is
commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U
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state of Pennsylvania and was authorized

at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the
100th anniversary of her birth
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A member of
the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned
for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other similar causes
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Early childhood and illness
Formal education
Companions

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In the picture is Helen
Keller along with lifelong companion
and teacher Anne Sullivan
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Anne
married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914
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She was a young woman from Scotland who had no experience
with deaf or blind people
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[23]

Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens, together with Anne and John, and used the house as
a base for her efforts on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind
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[25] Keller and
Thomson moved to Connecticut
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Thomson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960
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[2]

Political activities

Helen Keller portrait, 1904
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Both her eyes
were replaced in adulthood with glass
replicas for "medical and cosmetic
reasons"
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The country is
governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the
exploiters of labor
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So long as their fair demands—the
ownership and control of their livelihoods—are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor
women's rights
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—Helen Keller, 1911[27]

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author
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She was a suffragette,
a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control

supporter
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This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition
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Keller traveled to
over 40 countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of
the Japanese people
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Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell,
Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain
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[28]
Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support
of the working class from 1909 to 1921
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Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency
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[29] She later wrote of finding "in Henry George’s philosophy a rare beauty
and power of inspiration, and a splendid faith in the essential nobility of human
nature
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The editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her
development
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But now that I have come out for
socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf
and especially liable to error
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Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle!
Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system
that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness
which we are trying to prevent
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She wrote
for the IWW between 1916 and 1918
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For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune
beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to
wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and
greed of employers
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I found
that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in
blindness
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In the same interview, Keller also cited
the 1912 strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts for instigating her support
of socialism
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[2]
On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B
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In 1965 she was elected
to the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair
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She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Easton,
Connecticut, a few weeks short of her eighty-eighth birthday
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She was buried at the Washington National Cathedral Washington District of Columbia
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