Biography helen keller for kids

Helen Adams Keller (June 27,  – June 1, ) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Despite her medical condition, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in the United States.

Biography helen keller for kids

She was named one of Time magazine's Most Important People of the 20th Century.

Early childhood and illness

Keller was born on June 27, , in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Arthur Henley Keller (–) and Catherine Everett (Adams) Keller (–), known as "Kate".

Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, 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.

When she was nineteen months old, she became sick and lost her eyesight and hearing.

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