What Are Helen Keller's Accomplishments

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Helen Keller

Chapter 1
Early Life

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama in the United States. Her parents were Arthur and Katherine Keller. Her father was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He owned a cotton plantation. Helen had two younger siblings and two half brothers.

She wasn’t born blind or deaf. She spoke at 6 months and walked at 1 year. In 1882, Helen became sick with a fever. After being sick, she lost her sight and hearing. She was 19 months old.

She was very angry due to the fact that she had no way of communicating. And that made her actions wild and aggressive. As a result, her father wanted to put her into an institution or asylum while her mother didn’t give up hope for her.

In 1886, her mother sent Helen to see Julien
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She first went to the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. She then went to Radcliffe College and got a Bachelor of Arts in 1904. This was one of her many accomplishments. Keller was the first deafblind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts.

When she was at Radcliffe, Keller wrote her first book called “The Story of My Life” which was her autobiography. She went on to write many more books and articles.
Chapter 3
Achievements

Helen wrote 12 books and many articles on social issues including women’s rights and on topics such as blindness, deafness.

All she received doctoral degrees from the universities of temple, harvard, glasgow, berlin, delhigh and johannesburg.

She was also very active on boards and was a member or the following; the American Foundation for the Blind,vice president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom, counselor on international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind.

President Lyndon Johnson gave Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

1965, she was one of the 20 elected to the Women’s Hall of Fame at the New York World