HELEN KELLER Sarah Kwok

Name: Helen Adams Keller

Birth: June 27, 1880

Death: June 1, 1968

BIRTH estate called Ivy Green in

Tuscumbia, Alabama 27th June 1880 father Captain Arthur H. is a

former officer of the Confederate Army

Helen’s mother, Kate Adams Keller

daughter of Charles W. Adams, a former Confederate general.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS

World War 2 generally held to be September 1939 When she was 59

CHILDHOOD was not blind and deaf when

she was born. until he was nineteen months

old that she contracted with a disease

brought her blindness and deafness

communication partner was Martha Washington

able to create a sign language with her

age of 7, she had more than 60 home signs.

: SCHOOLING EARLY YEARS

, Bell recommended the Perkins School forthe Blind inBoston

, , Arecent grandaunt of the school Anne Sullivan also , known as Annie was offered the position of tutoring

: , SCHOOLING HIGHER DEGREES- , SELF STUDYING ETC

, 1888, May Kellerattended the Perkins Institute forthe. Blind

1894, -Helen Kellerand Anne Sullivan attend the Wright Humason School forthe Deaf and Horace Mann School for

the Deaf 1896, In Kellerentered The Cambridge School forYoung

Ladies Radcliffe College 1904, 24, In at the age of Kellergraduated fromRadcliffe

magna cum laude, becoming the firstdeaf blind person to .earn a Bachelorof Arts degree

DREAM

Was to be like everybody else in the society read write Communicate well with other people Was to marry

DEATH died in her afternoon nap at her home 1st of June 1968 before her 88th birthday

CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY Keller and Thompson travelled around the world raise funds

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