HELEN KELLER

NAME OF LEADERDESCRIPTION
HELEN KELLERHelen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)
She was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. This young woman taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

DESCRIPTIONNAME OF  SITECITYSTATE
BIRTHPLACE HOMETUSCUMBIAALABAtMA
ALMA MATERWright-Humason School for the Deaf NEW YORK CITYNEW YORK
ALMA MATERHorace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of HearingALLSTONMASSACHUSSETTS
ALMA MATERThe Cambridge School of WestonWESTONMASSACHUSSETTS
HOUSEHelen Keller and Annie Sullivan first came to Wrentham in 1897, they stayed at Red Farm at 430 Franklin StWRENTHAMMASSACHUSSETTS
ALMA MATERRADCLIFFE COLLEGEHARVARDMASSACHUSSETTS
HOUSEin 1904, she bought a house in Wrentham, at 349 East St., and she lived there with Sullivan and John Macy, who married Sullivan.WRENTHAMMASSACHUSSETTS
MUSEUMNATIONAL WOMENS HALL OF FAME -INDUCTEESENECA FALLSNEW YORK
DIEDHOMEEASTONCONNECTICUT
BURIALWASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL WASHINGTON DCWASHINGTON DC
STATUEHELEN KELLER MEMORIAL—A BRONZE SCULPTURETEWKSBURYMASSACHUSSETTS
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSDESCRIPTION/TIMELINE
HELEN KELLERKELLER WAS BORN ON JUNE 27, 1880, IN TUSCUMBIA, ALABAMA, THE DAUGHTER OF ARTHUR HENLEY KELLER (1836–1896), AND CATHERINE EVERETT (ADAMS) KELLER (1856–1921), KNOWN AS “KATE”. HER FAMILY LIVED ON A HOMESTEAD, IVY GREEN,[2] THAT HELEN’S PATERNAL GRANDFATHER HAD BUILT DECADES EARLIER. SHE HAD FOUR SIBLINGS: TWO FULL SIBLINGS, MILDRED CAMPBELL (KELLER) TYSON AND PHILLIP BROOKS KELLER; AND TWO OLDER HALF-BROTHERS FROM HER FATHER’S FIRST MARRIAGE, JAMES MCDONALD KELLER AND WILLIAM SIMPSON KELLER.
MENTOR : ANN SULLIVAN TALK MORE IN ANN SULLIVAN PAGE
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLERIN MAY 1888, KELLER STARTED ATTENDING THE PERKINS INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND. IN 1894,
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLER KELLER MOVED TO NEW YORK TO ATTEND THE WRIGHT-HUMASON SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN 1894
MENTOR : ANN SULLIVAN TALK MORE IN ANN SULLIVAN PAGE
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLERLEARN FROM SARAH FULLER AT THE HORACE MANN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. IN 1896,
MENTOR : ANN SULLIVAN TALK MORE IN ANN SULLIVAN PAGE
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLERAS I’VE SHARED IN PREVIOUS POSTS, HELEN KELLER WAS 16 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE AND HER COMPANION ANNIE SULLIVAN ARRIVED AT OUR SCHOOL ON OCTOBER 1, 1896.
MENTOR : ANN SULLIVAN TALK MORE IN ANN SULLIVAN PAGE
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLERIN 1900, TO RADCLIFFE COLLEGE OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, WHERE SHE LIVED IN BRIGGS HALL SOUTH HOUSE.
SHE BECAME THE FIRST DEAF-BLIND PERSON TO EARN A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
MENTOR : ANN SULLIVAN TALK MORE IN ANN SULLIVAN PAGE
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELLEN KELLERKELLER HAD A SERIES OF STROKES IN 1961 AND SPENT THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE AT HER HOME.SHE DIED IN HER SLEEP ON JUNE 1, 1968, AT HER HOME, ARCAN RIDGE, LOCATED IN EASTON, CONNECTICUT, A FEW WEEKS SHORT OF HER EIGHTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
NAME OF SUFFRAGISTSTIMELINE
HELEN KELLER HELEN KELLER GOT BURIED JUNE 1 . 1968