![]() ![]() She had no formal education until age seven, and since she could not speak, she developed a system for communicating with her family by feeling their facial expressions. ![]() Keller, a farmer, newspaper editor, and Confederate Army veteran, and his second wife Katherine Adams Keller, an educated woman from Memphis. Several months before Helen’s second birthday, a serious illness-possibly meningitis or scarlet fever-left her deaf and blind. She advocated for the blind and for women’s suffrage and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.īorn on Jin Tuscumbia, Alabama, Keller was the older of two daughters of Arthur H. Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20 th century humanitarian, educator and writer. ![]()
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