Helen
Adams Keller is an author, political activist, and
lecturer in America. She became the winner of
the Honorary Degrees University Women's Hall of Fame, The Presidential
Medal of Freedom, and The Lions Humanitarian Award, and even her life story won
two Oscars. Women born in Tuscumbia, Albama, June 27, 1880 was born normal, but
at age 19 months she was attacked by a disease that caused him blind and deaf.
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When
growing up she started to learn to do small things, but with the condition that
she always felt missing something and caused it to be a wild child. At the age
of 7 years her parents asked Anne Sullivan to become her private teacher and
mentor. She learned to read and write quickly. In 1890 Helen began to learn to
speak after the study for one month.
In
1900 she went to college at Radcliffe College, Harvard
University branch for women. Sullivan was always company her in all
classes and translate lectures with hand gestures. When she was asked to Ladies
Home Journal to write her autobiography, in 1902 appeared her book, The Story
of My Life. In her writing she was assisted by Harvard professor John Macy, who
later married a Sullivan. In 1904, Helen was a cum laude graduated.
In
1906, Keller was appointed by the governor of New York State Commission to
manage the institution For the Blind. Keller also campaigned against ophthalmia
Neonatorum in infants. In 1924, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) asked
Keller as their spokesman. She was also active in social reform movements,
including abolition of child labor, and capital punishment. Keller is a good-hearted social activist.
In
1930 Keller lobby the Washington to help get the conversation and book reading
service for blind people. She also managed to make blind people guaranteed in
the Social Security Act. Thomson, Keller’s housekeeper became her partner after
Macy died in 1936. In World War II, Keller build a military hospital, in the
1950s she was teaching the visually impaired in South Africa, the Middle East
and Latin America. Thomson died after Keller retired from community activities.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by
President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. She died in Easton, Connecticut on
June 1, 1968 at the age of 87 years.
Helen
Keller left the fame as a social activist who is
concerned about the blind and deaf people, the sick and the poor. She is a great blind heroine.
