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Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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When Helen was 2 years of age, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf.
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Ann Sullivan was Helen's teacher who tried to help young Helen with being blind and deaf.
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Ann taught Helen how to say the word "water."
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Helen attended the Perkins Institute for the blind, in Water-town Massachusetts.
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She entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies.
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Helen autobiography called The Story of my Life was published.
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Helen Keller graduated with a Bachelor's degree of arts. She is was the first blind and deaf person to do so
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Helen found help at the ACLU.
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When Helen was only 7 years old, she met Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.
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Helen traveled to 39 countries to encourage the establishment of schools for the blind and deaf.
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The movie Helen Keller in Her Story, a documentary about her life, won her an Oscar.
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Helen past away at the age of 87, in Easton Connecticut, and was buried in the Washington National Cathedral.
