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Helen Keller couldn’t see or hear but for more than eighty years she had always been busy. She read and wrote books. She learned how to swim and even how to ride a bicycle. But most of all Helen brought hope to millions of handicapped people. The first biographies about Helen appeared before she was ten years old. Important people wanted to meet Helen.
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Helen was doing speeches all over the word and raising money to help make schools for the blind and deaf children. A letter was sent from Japan from the Emperor. He wanted Helen to come help the blind children there. She went to raise money for the kids, and it was a success. All the people gave Helen lots of cards and even the Emperor sent her a thank you on a card.
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In a textbook example of whitewashing, if today's America knows Helen Keller (1880-1968) at all, it's the easy-to-digest image portrayed in the 1962 film, The Miracle Worker. Brave deaf and blind girl "overcomes" all obstacles to inspire everyone she meets. "The Helen Keller with whom most people are familiar is a stereotypical sexless paragon who was able to overcome deaf-blindness and work tirelessly to promote charities and organizations associated with other blind and deaf-blind individuals," writes Sally Rosenthal in Ragged Edge.
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