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Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Born	6/27 (1880) (age 144) Tuscumbia Alabama
Alma mater	Radcliffe College
Occupation(s)	Author and Activist

Helen Keller June 27, 1880 - American author, political activist, and lecturer.

Biography

Even though Blind and Deaf, Helen Keller had passed through many obstacles and she learned to live with her disabilities. She learned how to tell which person was walking by from the vibrations their footsteps would make. The sex and age of the person could be identified by how strong and continuous the steps were.

Helen Keller was viewed as isolated but she was in fact, very in touch with the outside world. She is able to enjoy music by feeling the beat and she is able to have a strong connection with animals through touch. She was delayed at picking up language, but that did not stop her from having a voice. She was a socialists and many of her speech's and writing were about women’s right to vote and war. She had speech therapy in order to have her voice heard better by the public. When articles such as the Rockefeller denied to publish her articles, she spoke out to them in till her work was on display.

The Deaf community was widely impacted by her. She traveled to twenty-five different countries giving motivational speeches about Deaf people conditions. Helen proved to the world that Deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She also taught that Deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. She is one of the most famous Deaf people in history and she is idol to many Deaf people in the world.