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Helen Keller

American author, lecturer and disability-rights advocate · 1880–1968

Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing in early childhood and learned to communicate with the support of her teacher Anne Sullivan. She became an author, public lecturer and advocate whose work addressed disability rights, education, suffrage, labor and social equality.

Selected works and contributions

  • The Story of My Life
  • The World I Live In
  • Out of the Dark

Ideas to explore

  • Courage
  • Education
  • Equality
  • Perseverance

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