She was deaf and blind but she knew when a storm was coming, she would know who was in the room beneath her by the vibrations of their footsteps, she was Helen Keller. Helen’s family was visited by a stork on June 27, 1880, and the hearse took her away on June 1, 1968. She has had multiple accomplishments and had a very interesting life. She believed that women, African Americans, blind, deaf, and people with other disabilities should have the same rights as everybody else.
In Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, her parents were Kate and Arthur Keller. At the age of nineteen months old, she got sick. The doctor diagnosed her with “Brain Fever”, but it was probably meningitis or scarlet fever. They thought she was going to die because there was nothing that they could do to treat it. She ended up living however, the illness left her deaf and blind. Helen was six when her family decided to get her a teacher. They chose Annie Sullivan. On her first week, Helen and Annie moved to a cottage on the parent's property to get Helen away from her parents who would let her do anything she wanted. When Helen first started to learn letters and words she didn’t know that the words she was spelling were actual things in real life. Eventually, Annie helped her figure out. In 1890, Helen started to take speech classes, and in spite of not
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Did you know that Helen was friends with Alexander Graham Bell? When Helen got her picture taken, Annie always made sure that it was from the right side, because her left eye stuck out, and it made her look blind. Then later Helen got surgery, and it replaced both her, eyes with glass eyes because Annie didn’t think she should go in public with an eye that stuck out. Helen could play chess and had a special chess set. She was also an amazing typer, she was even better than Annie and Polly. Helen was the first woman ever allowed to touch the Great Buddha of Kamakura on her trip