Activist Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Living place: Alabama

Birthday: 27-6-1880

Global rank: #6311

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Activist Helen Keller profile

Who is Activist Helen Keller?
Helen Keller full name is Helen Adams Keller, is an American speaker, writer and social activist. From the age of 19 months, Helen Keller suffered from meningitis, which resulted in her blindness. Not long after, the ears were also deaf. With extraordinary energy, Helen Keller conquered the arts and became the first blind and deaf person to receive a bachelor of arts degree.

In 1902, Helen Keller began writing books. With the help of her close friend Anne Sullivan and a number of literary critics, she published her debut work, "The Story of My Life", published in 1903. Her first work, written in the autobiographical genre with a concise and honest writing style, made readers admire.

In 1960, Keller published the book " Light in My Darkness". The book is her defense of the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher-scientist. During her career as a book writer, Helen Keller has written a total of 12 books and many other articles.

September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Keller the Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest awards the US government has given to the people. In honor of a talented writer, a talented social activist, many directors have made movies about Helen Keller's life. In particular, the documentary "The Unconquered " made in 1954, telling the life of Helen Keller in the most realistic way, won the Oscar for best documentary. In 1965, she was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair. Her name was also given to a hospital in Alabama.

Helen Keller died June 1, 1968 at Arcan Ridge Easton, Connecticut, U.S., aged 87.

Young / Before famous

Helen Keller was sent by her mother to the Perkins School, a school for the blind located in South Boston, Massachusetts. At Perkins School, she was taught by the blind Irish tutor, Anne Sullivan, who had just graduated from Ireland. They quickly found empathy in their souls and became close. It was also Anne who taught Keller more than 400 simple words and some phrases.
Helen Keller then attended the Massachusetts State School for Girls. Anne was always at Keller's side to rewrite the lecture content into the palm of Keller's palm. In 1900, Helen Keller passed the entrance exam to Radcliffe College, where she learned Braille materials for the blind. She studied many foreign languages, typically French and German. In June 1904, she graduated and became the first blind - deaf person to receive a university degree. After that, she also studied and received a number of honorary doctorates, among them Harvard University.
After graduation, Helen Keller was trusted to be the president of the Massachusetts Association of the Blind. . In 1920, she founded a nationwide mass organization of the All-America Association of the Blind.

Family life info

Helen Keller is the daughter of Arthur H. Keller, a captain and editor of the Tuscumbia newspaper North Alabamian. Helen Keller's mother is Kate Adams. Her paternal surname was descended from Casper Keller, a man of Swiss descent.

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She has met many US presidents such as Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft... She also became friends with famous people like Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin

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When was Activist Helen Keller born?
Helen Keller was born in 27-6-1880, death year is , at the age of 144.
Where is Activist Helen Keller's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Helen Keller was born in Alabama, . Ms, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Helen Keller's global rank is 6311 and whose rank is 1 in list of famous Activist.
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Events in 1880 and 27-6

Birthday Helen Keller (27-6) in history

  • Day 27-6 year 1844: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
  • Day 27-6 year 1898: Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip.
  • Day 27-6 year 1922: The Newbery Medal for children’s literature was first awarded.
  • Day 27-6 year 1950: President Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War.
  • Day 27-6 year 1954: The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • Day 27-6 year 1969: Police and gays clashed at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, fostering the gay rights movement.
  • Day 27-6 year 1985: The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.
  • Day 27-6 year 2003: The national do-not-call registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
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