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Helen Keller In Her Story
View Lesson GuidePortrays all parts of Helen Keller’s life. Shows her early life, her education, and work. Also depicts her travel experiences, showing the notables she met. Ends with her speech lessons and daily living habits. 1955 Academy Award winner for best documentary. More » | Audio Described preview » | Captioned preview »
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller’s loss of vision and hearing in infancy made comprehension of the outside world next to impossible. When teacher Anne Sullivan agreed to work with Keller, that world opened up, and they both learned essential life-altering lessons. More » | Captioned/Audio Described Preview »
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Tragedy to Triumph
View Lesson GuideIn this fictionalized account, 17-year-old Felix finds himself blind and sent back to 1935, where he meets Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. He lives with them and learns about blindness, “seeing” with his heart, and kindness. More » | Captioned Preview » | Audio Described Preview »
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Newsreel Footage
Two clips containing actual footage of Helen Keller. In the first, Anne Sullivan describes the process by which Helen learned to speak (Watch on YouTube »). In the second, Helen and Anne meet First Lady Grace Coolidge at the White House in 1926 (Watch on YouTube »). More »
About Helen Keller: Biographical information and more
Quick Facts
- Born
- June 27, 1880
- Died
- June 1, 1968
- Became Deaf-Blind
- At 19 months old
- Met Anne Sullivan
- March 1887
- Schools Attended
- Number of U.S. Presidents Met
- 13
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- FDR
- Harry Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- JFK
- LBJ
- Memberships & Causes
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- American Foundation for the Blind
- American Braille Press (board member)
- Women’s Suffrage
- Peace/Pacifism
- Helen Keller International (co-founder)
- American Civil Liberties Union (co-founder)
- U.S. Socialist Party/Industrial Workers of the World
- Number of Books Authored
- 12
In-Depth Biography of Helen Keller
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) provides a comprehensive Helen Keller Biography as well as a Chronology of Helen Keller’s Life that offers a year-by-year account of Helen’s life and accomplishments.
Biographical information about Helen is also available from the U.K.-based RNIB. Likewise, Perkins School for the Blind (where Helen Keller went to school prior to Radcliffe College) provides a Q & A-type biography about Helen Keller on its website.
For perhaps the most complete account of Helen’s life, read her acclaimed autobiography, The Story of My Life, available in its entirety on the AFB website.
Additional Helen Keller Resources: Links, Photos, Organizations, and More!
Links/Organizations related to Helen Keller
AFB, the organization to which Helen Keller devoted a great deal of work, provides a collection of information and other content about Helen, including:
- The Helen Keller Archive, the most comprehensive source of Helen Keller–related materials on the internet
- The Helen Keller Kids Museum, part of AFB’s Braille Bug program
- A collection of articles, photos, and more focusing specifically on Helen’s “Teacher,” Anne Sullivan
Photos of Helen Keller
Seven decades’ worth of photos chronicling Helen’s life and work (including some photos featuring other famous figures such as President Calvin Coolidge and Alexander Graham Bell) are available from AFB’s Helen Keller Archives. (AFB is currently raising funds to fully digitize the Archive—learn how you can help.)
Many photos of Helen are also available from the Library of Congress Photo Archive.
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