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Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language,…
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culture · American author and activist (1880–1968) · writer · orator · essayist · political activist · trade unionist · peace activist · suffragette · linguist · autobiographer · also Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller, Keller
Born 27 June 1880 · Died 1 June 1968 · Q38203
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2026· 5 entries
Dallas News: A data center is tearing Keller and Westlake apart
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musicbusinessworldwide.com: Milk & Honey’s Lucas Keller and THE•TEAM’s Marty Diamond to receive MUSEXPO 2027 awards
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Los Alamos Reporter: Local Troop 122 Scout Brandon Keller Completes Eagle Project To Honor The American Flag: Places Flag Collection Boxes In Community
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Helen Keller was a fraud who faked being deafblind and literate in a charade put on by Anne Sullivan.” Real Person.
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Helen Keller said, “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”” Mostly True.
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2023· 1 entry
The film was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Did Helen Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, credit an anonymous maid's act of kindness for altering the course of her life?” Mixture.
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2020· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Author and disability rights advocate Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf, flew a plane with the assistance of an air crew.” True.
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fact checker rated the claim “Left-leaning social media is advocating for “canceling” Helen Keller.” fake.
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The documentary essay Her Socialist Smile by John Gianvito evolves around Keller's first public talk in 1913 before a general audience, when she started speaking out on behalf of progressive causes
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Labor Hall of Honor (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
The State of Alabama donated a bronze statue of Keller to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for its 1908 statue of education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
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2008· 1 entry
The New England Historic Genealogical Society announced that a staff member had discovered a rare 1888 photograph showing Helen and Anne, which, although previously published, had escaped widespread attention
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter
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2000· 1 entry
States in the credits that she became an activist for social equality
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1999· 1 entry
Keller was listed fifth (at 30 percent) in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century
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1984· 1 entry
Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues
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1980· 1 entry
(pictured) by the United States Postal Service, depicting Keller and Sullivan, to mark the centennial of Keller's birth
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1976· 1 entry
“The Ancient People and the Newly Come”
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Keller was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (1971).
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1968· 9 entries
Died 1968-06-01.
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At her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Easton, Connecticut, at the age of 87
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“Não importa o quanto se sinta em posição desfavorável; não se desencoraje; não tenha medo; não se desespere.”
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“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”
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“Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.”
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“Jamais aprenderiamos a ser corajosos e pacientes se houvesse apenas alegria no mundo.”
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“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.”
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“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
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1965· 2 entries
Won Golden Plate Award (1965).
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Was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair
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1964· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1964).
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Was made an honorary member of the Southern Dames of America during their second national assembly in Washington, D
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1961· 1 entry
And spent the last years of her life at her home
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1959· 2 entries
Which was praised by critics as a contemporary classic, and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
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Which he adapted as a film under the same title in 1962
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1957· 2 entries
Stayed on after Thomson's death and was Keller's companion for the rest of her life
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From which she never fully recovered and died in 1960
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1953· 1 entry
That although they have not "conducted an investigation with regard to Helen Adams Keller", their files of Keller "reflect the following pertinent information concerning this individual"
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1948· 2 entries
Went to New Zealand and visited deaf schools in Christchurch and Auckland
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Touched the re-made statue of Hachikō at Shibuya Station
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1936· 1 entry
With Keller holding her hand, after falling into a coma as a result of coronary thrombosis
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1927· 1 entry
And then in 1994 extensively revised by Ray Silverman, and re-issued under the title Light in My Darkness
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1920· 1 entry
Keller helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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1916· 2 entries
Keller and Sullivan traveled to the small town of Menomonie in western Wisconsin to deliver a lecture at the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
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Sent money to the NAACP, as she was ashamed of the Southern un-Christian treatment of "colored people"
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1915· 1 entry
Wrote in favor of refusing life-saving medical procedures to infants with severe mental impairments or physical deformities, saying that their lives were not worthwhile and they would likely become criminals
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1912· 1 entry
Keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, known as the Wobblies), saying that parliamentary socialism was "sinking in the political bog"
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1909· 2 entries
Keller became a member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA); she actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921
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Joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA)
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1908· 1 entry
Keller wrote The World I Live In, giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world
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1907· 1 entry
Brought to public attention the fact that many cases of childhood blindness could be prevented by washing the eyes of every newborn baby with a disinfectant solution
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1905· 1 entry
And her health started failing around 1914
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1904· 1 entry
At the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, becoming the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
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1896· 1 entry
Returned to Massachusetts, and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College of Harvard University, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House
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1894· 1 entry
Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf
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1893· 1 entry
Keller, along with Sullivan, attended William Wade House and Finishing School
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1887· 1 entry
A day Keller would forever remember as "my soul's birthday"
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1886· 1 entry
Keller's mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of Laura Bridgman, a deaf and blind woman, dispatched the young Keller and her father to consult physician J
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1880· 2 entries
In Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of Arthur Henley Keller (1836–1896), and Catherine Everett (née Adams) Keller (1856–1921), known as "Kate"
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Born 1880-06-27.
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