I am helen keller biography
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“I am not dumb now.” These are the five words that Helen Keller vocally exclaimed to the public in Deaf and blind since she was 19 months old, the then year-old Keller was also considered by many to be mute.
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When she first told her teacher, Anne Sullivan, that she wanted to be able to speak using her mouth and not just her hands, Sullivan considered the challenge insurmountable. With the resolve so characteristic of her life, Keller was determined to prove the world wrong.
She was not dumb, not in any sense of the word. It was with this same tenacity that Keller fought for others’ rights and made a name for herself as one of the world’s most respected and tireless champions of civil liberties. Keller made Easton, CT her home for the last three decades of her life.
Helen Adams Keller was born with full sight and hearing in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, , the daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller.
In , the young infant fell ill with what, at the time, was