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Helen Keller (1880–1968) was a suffragist, pacifist, and lifelong advocate for people with disabilities. Keller became deaf and blind as the result of illness at the age of 19 months. She represents one of the most remarkable cases to date of a person who overcame severe disabilities to make outstanding contributions to society.
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. ... Author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller (AB, 1904) Spy for the United Kingdom and United States Virginia Hall (1924–1925, no degree) Author Margaret Atwood, (AM, 1962)
Hace 4 días · Helen Keller (born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S.—died June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut) was an American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.
After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Helen Keller was an American educator, advocate for the blind and deaf and co-founder of the ACLU. Stricken by an illness at the age of 2, Keller was left blind and deaf. Beginning in 1887,...
At age 24, she graduated from Radcliffe College as the first deaf-blind person in the world to earn a college degree. Keller then devoted her life to improving opportunities for the blind. As her fame grew, she travelled extensively and met presidents and world leaders and convinced them to support her cause.
Keller began working on The Story of My Life while she was a student at Radcliffe College, and it was first published in installments in Ladies' Home Journal. Helping her was an editor and Harvard professor named John Albert Macy, who later married Keller's first teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan.
