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.
About the Described and Captioned Media Program: Free-loan accessible educational media
The Described and Captioned Media Program provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. These services include (1) a library of free-loan described and captioned educational media, (2) a clearinghouse of information related to educational media access, (3) a gateway to internet resources related to accessibility, and (4) training—via our Keys to Access guidelines—and evaluation of service providers desiring to appear on the DCMP’s approved lists of description and captioning service providers. There are no user-registration or service fees.
The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association of the Deaf.
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