Hellen keller

TODAY, reading Rosie Sultan’s debut novel Helen Keller in Love , I thought about the scene in Black Beauty when the barn catches on fi...

This series shows Helen Keller in her role as an advocate, writer, traveler, and public figure. She is shown meeting celebrities on the world stage, including President Hoover, the Mayor of Hiroshima and the Indian sage and poet, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. In addition, her support of humanitarian causes is evident in her visits to blinded soldiers during the second World War. They also show some of her many trips, including South Africa and Japan. Helen Keller was a prolific writer, publishing…

Helen Keller lived from 1880 to 1968 and is known for overcoming her disabilities and advocating for the disabled as a community. But teenagers now doubt she was 'real.'

At the age of 19 months, Keller suffered from an illness, which is believed to have been scarlet fever, leaving her deaf and blind.

From scrappy Scotties to dignified Great Danes to a famous Akita, dogs always brought joy to Helen Keller.

Today in History: On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller dies in Westport, Connecticut, at the age of 87. Blind and deaf from infancy, Keller circumvented her disabilities to become a world-renowned writer and lecturer. "My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,” Helen Keller once wrote.

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Description: Studio portrait of 10-year-old Helen Keller standing next to her dog. Keller, a white girl, is facing sideways next to a chair with a spaniel sitting on it, who is likely her dog Belle. She rests her left hand on the dog's shoulder, her right hand is resting against her skirt in a fist, with one finger pointing downward. Keller wears a light-colored dress with a bow in the back and dark button-up boots. Note on verso, “Lioness." Full text: Elmer Chickering 21 West St. Boston…

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century's leading humanitarians as well as co-founder of the ACLU.