What Are Helen Keller's Accomplishments

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1.Helen Keller was born healthy on June 27, 1880, in Tuscimbia, Alabama, a small town located in the northern part of Alabama. Living modestly on their cotton plantation, her parents, Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller, took very good care of their first daughter. Helen had two older half-brothers from Mr. Keller’s previous marriage, and a younger sister named Mildred whom she began to love, since they had a distant relationship growing up. Helen also had a setter, named Belle who was often too lazy to keep up with Helen’s active lifestyle. Helen was a fast learner, she spoke at the age of six months, and walked her first steps at twelve months old. Then, at nineteen months, Helen was stricken with a terrible illness, most likely Scarlet Fever, leaving her blind and deaf. Yet, through her brown eyes shined curiosity in the world around her. Helen, even with disabilities, always wanted to learn more, often using motions to explain something in a way to communicate with others, making her own “language”, by the age of seven she invented more than sixty signs to communicate with …show more content…

Starting small, Helen spoke her first words at the age of six months and walked her first steps at the age of one. She wrote many books including The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, and Light in My Darkness. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, studying for four years, being the first deaf-blind student to graduate or even attend a college. Keller attacked social and political issues such as women’s suffrage. In addition, Helen also helped found the ACLU- American Civil Liberties Union. Helen often campaigned and raised awareness, support, and money for the blind. Furthermore, she was given many medals, including Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian medal that can be awarded. Helen accomplished many things in her lifetime that she is respected greatly

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