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In Tuscunbis, Alabama, Helen Keller was born to Arther H. Keller and Kate Adams neither deaf nor blind.
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At 18 months old, Helen Keller got sick with an illness, which her doctors called "brain fever", and resulted in being blind and deaf.Her parents found out when she couldn't hear the doorbell or see their waving hands.
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A few years later, when Helen was at the age of six or seven, Ann Sullivan came to help her learn about her surroundings and how to communicate with others, starting with the word "water".
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In Boston, Keller attended the Horace Mann School for the Deaf to learn to speak for others to understand her.
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Helen Keller began to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City until 1896.
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Helen Keller attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies, a prepatory school for women.
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Anne Sullivan helped Helen Keller enroll in Radcliffe College as a regular student.
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Helen Keller published her first book, an autobiography called The Story of My Life, that she wrote with the help of Sullivan and John Macy.
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At the age of 24, Keller was graduated "cum laude" from Radcliffe College and had mastered five languages.
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Helen Keller's book, The World I Live In, was published.
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Keller's book, Out of the Dark, about her socialist views was published in 1913.
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With the help of Gorge Kessler, Helen co-founded the Helen Keller International to combat the consequesnces and causes of blindness.
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In 1920, Helen Keller help found the ACLU, which is short for American Civil Liberties Union.
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To help the blind, she became a member and did many campaigns to help raise money, awarness, and support.
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Her book, Midstream: My Later Life at 49, was published.
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After facing health problems for several years, Helen Keller, already blind, began losing more and more of her eyesight until it was completely gone in 1932.
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In order to listen to the music of the Opera House in New York that she attended, she had to experience the music through the vibrations.
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Helen Keller was appointed counseler on international relations.
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At the age on 75, Helen Keller went on a five month trek that was 40,000 miles across Asia. It was the most grueling and longest trip she had ever been on.
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Keller became the first women to receive an honorary degree from Harvard University.
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At around the age of 81, Helen Keller began suffering a series of strokes, which made her spend her last few years of her life in her house in Connecticut.
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On June 1 1968, just a few week before her birthday, Helen Keller died in her sleep at age 88 in Westport, Connecticut.
