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Helen Keller, Helen: The World Book Activist

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Helen Keller.”Biography(Activist).Web.10 Dec.2015. infoplease.infoplease.Web.10.2015 On June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama an inspirational figure was born. Her name was Helen Keller. Helen was born as a normal and healthy baby with perfect hearing and sight. She had developed fine and started to speak when only at the young age of six months old, and started walking at …show more content…

Also in 1890 Helen had moved into the Perkins Institute. In 1894 until 1896 Helen had attended the Wright-Humason School for the deaf in New York City and worked on improving her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects. Two years later she attended the Cambridge School for young ladies. In 1899 she had gone to Radcliffe college and graduated in 1904 with honors, at the age of 24. During her lifetime, Helen had won many awards, which include the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1936; the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; and got elected to the Woman’s Hall of Fame in 1965. She also Received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University and Harvard and from the Universities of Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Additionally, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of …show more content…

Helen had died on the night of June 1st, 1968 just weeks before her eighty-eighth birthday. She had died in bed at her home in Westport, Connecticut. She died of natural causes, which she had drifted off to sleep during the night and hadn’t woken up the next morning. During her life she had stood as a powerful example of how determination, and hard work can allow an individual to fight over adversity by overcoming bad conditions and with a great deal of determination you can grow into a respected and world known activist, author, lecturer and educator like her or anything that you want to

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