Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, 1897

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, 1897

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, 1897. Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was 19 months old when she contracted an illness, which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis, that left her deaf and blind. In 1887 Anne Sullivan became Keller's instructor. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her anti-war convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She died in her sleep in 1968 at the age of 87. Johanna "Anne" Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 - October 20, 1936), best known as Anne Sullivan, was an Irish-American teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. She died in 1936, at age 70 after a coma, with Keller holding her hand.

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