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A legendary life
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller
1880 – 1968
Author and disability rights advocate who became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Her story
A life that changed history
Helen Keller became an internationally known author, lecturer, and campaigner. She worked for the American Foundation for the Blind for more than four decades and advocated across the world for disability rights, women's suffrage, labor rights, and peace.
“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.”
The Story of My Life, chapter 4, 1903
“That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!”
The Story of My Life, chapter 4, 1903