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Helen Keller was a remarkable woman, born in 1880 and died in 1968 at the age of 88. At age two, she contracted an illness that left her blind, deaf, unable to speak, and was considered backwards of intelligence. She lived in a dark and hopeless world of her own, until age 7, when she was placed in the care of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Through being taught letters spelt out in her hand, she came to realise the correlation between those words and their meaning. From then on, using her dogged persistence, she went on to bring forth her intellectual and emotional abilities, being an avid learner, and despite the social obstacles of her time, became the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college. As an adult, she travelled the world, campaigned for civil rights, world peace, human dignity and women's rights, and authored many books and essays.
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¥"According to a reliable source, Helen Keller was a sponsor of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. . . . Keller was listed as one of the Speakers at a rally at Madison Square Gardens in New York City on December 4, 1945, which was sponsored by the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, Incorporated, which organization was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives." This "reliable source" apparently didn't think it important to report how this "Communist front" began life as the "Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt" in the 1944 presidential campaign. Among the other "un-American" causes it embraced at the 1945 rally was the civilian control of atomic energy, while other subversives who appeared at its events included Orson Welles, Sinclair Lewis, and Vice-President Henry Wallace.
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Helen Keller's new life began on a March day in 1887 when she was a few months short of seven years old. On that day, which Miss Keller was always to call "The most important day I can remember in my life," Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher. Miss Sullivan, a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, who had regained useful sight through a series of operations, had come to the Kellers through the sympathetic interest of Alexander Graham Bell. From that fateful day, the two—teacher and pupil—were inseparable until the death of the former in 1936.
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Helen Keller was not just famous in America…she was World famous. The deaf and blind lecturer, author and activist was especially well-liked in Japan, and Keller made numerous visits to Japan in her travels around the globe. This DVD is a rare glimpse of first-hand film footage of Keller during one of her lectures in Japan. This film is silent.
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Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, was a captain in the Confederate Army, and his second wife, Kate Adams, was Helen's mother. Captain Keller took his new bride to the little white cottage next to his family's homestead, Ivy Green, to live when they first got married, and it was there that Helen was born. Contrary to what most people think, Helen was not born blind and deaf, but a typical, healthy baby girl. It was not until an illness that doctors described as "acute congestion of the stomach and brain" came upon Helen when she was only nineteen months old that robbed her of both her sight and hearing. Devastated by this tragedy, the Kellers began to plan how they would prepare their child to begin her new life of darkness.
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Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. When she was only 19 months old, she contracted a fever that left her blind and deaf. When she was almost seven years old (see picture at right) her parents engaged Anne Mansfield Sullivan to be her tutor. With dedication, patience, courage and love, Miss Sullivan was able to evoke and help develop the child's enormous intelligence. Helen Keller quickly learned to read and write, and began to speak by the age of 10. When she was 20, she entered Radcliffe College, with Miss Sullivan at her side to spell textbooks – letter by letter – into her hand.
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