Helen Keller

American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity to become the one of the leading humanists blind and deaf as a 20th century, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she fell ill and was blind, deaf and dumb struck. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her tremendous progress with their ability to make, communicate and Keller went to college, 1920 in 1904. Statements helped Keller the ACLU found. Throughout her life she received many awards in recognition of their achievements.

Early life

Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She also had two older half-brothers. Keller's father was proud, served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not very rich and earned income from their cotton plantation. Later Arthur editor of a weekly local newspaper, North Alabamian.

Keller was born with her eyesight and hearing and started talking when she was only 6 months old. She started at the age of 1 foot.

Loss of vision and hearing

In 1882, however, contracted a disease Keller - "brain fever" by the family doctor called - which generates a high body temperature. The true nature of the disease remains a mystery today, although some experts believe that it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Within a few days after the fever broke, remarked Kellers mother that her daughter showed no reaction when the dinner bell was rung, or was when a hand waved in front of her face. Keller had lost both her sight and hearing. She was only 18 months old.