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Helen Keller: World
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In 1936, Helen Keller moved to Westport, Connecticut, where she lived until her death on June 1, 1968, at the age of 87. In his eulogy at her funeral, Senator Lister Hill said of her, "She will live on, one of the few, immortal names not born to die. Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith." Keller was a highly intelligent and sensitive woman who wrote, spoke and labored incessantly for the betterment of others.
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Helen Keller's greater achievement came after Anne Sullivan, her companion and protector, died in 1936. Keller would live until 1968 and in that time would prove that the disabled can be independent. She disliked the word "handicapped". She was once asked how disabled veterans of World War II should be treated and said that they do "not want to be treated as heroes. They want to be able to live naturally and to be treated as human beings."
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Since that moment at the wellhouse at the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1887, where Helen was transformed from something a little more than a beast into a human being, both women had become world-famous. Immense crowds gathered whenever they lectured or appeared on the vaudeville stage, and even presidents, kings, queens, and popes deferred to them. For many persons, meeting Helen Keller was akin to having a religious experience. It was like an encounter with an angel. And almost invariably people were moved to tears.
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[I]n 1909, Helen Keller became a socialist. Soon after, she emerged as a vocal supporter of the working class and traveled the nation to voice her opposition to war. "How can our rulers claim they are fighting to make the world safe for democracy," she asked, "while here in the U.S. Negroes may be massacred and their property burned?" Of course, as a woman with disabilities, she was patronized by the same mainstream media that previously championed her as a heroine. The editors of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote: "Her mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development."
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Imagine living in the world that Helen Keller found herself in nineteen months after arriving on this planet. A world that was dark and silent as the result of a high fever that eliminated her ability to see and hear.
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[M]uch Helen learned, she would always be dependent on someone to guide her and interpret the visual world into her hand. Anne Sullivan became that guide, accompanying her pupil to Boston and the Perkins Institution, later to Radcliffe College, and finally, all over the world. She became much more than a teacher to Helen. She became a friend and confidante, companion and adviser.
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