Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts
degree.[2][3] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan,
broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language,
allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely
known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The
Miracle Worker.
Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum[4] and sponsors an annual "Helen
Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day
in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal
level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her
birth.
A
prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. A
member of the Socialist Party of
America and the Industrial
Workers of the World,
she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism,
and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of
Fame in 1971[5] and was one of twelve inaugural
inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
Early childhood and illness
Helen
Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green,[4] that Helen's grandfather had built
decades earlier.[7] She had two younger siblings, Mildred
Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers from her
father's prior marriage, James and William Simpson Keller.[8]
Her father, Arthur H. Keller,[9] spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian, and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.[7] Her paternal grandmother was the second cousin of Robert E. Lee.[10] Her mother, Kate Adams,[11] was the daughter of Charles W. Adams, a Confederate general.[12] Though originally from 
No comments:
Post a Comment