HELEN KELLER
The power of the sight is not in the eyes but in the mind.
Born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. What special about her that we are looking at this today; is the way she beat all odds to become an lecturer, graduated from college cum laude, met many United States Presidents from Grover Cleveland- Lyndon B. Johnson, author, Crusader for the physically challenged.
Keller was born with her sight and hearing but she lost them at the age of 19 months to an unknown ailment, though some sad the the sickness was scarlet fever. Imagine someone who is blind and deaf having the above qualities, there is therefore no room for excuses. Five years after her challenge, she met with Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who will teach Helen how to communicate with signs, Braille and typewriter. Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968, a few weeks to her 88th birthday.
She was the first deaf-blind to graduated with a college degree in 1904 from Radcliffs College.
The American Foundation for Overseas Blind was named Helen Keller International.
Helen Keller was appointed Counsellor on International Relations.
Helen Keller visited 35 countries in five continents and met with world leaders such as Winston Churchill of England, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Golda Meir of Israel.
She was sent to Japan in 1948 as America’s first Goodwill Ambassador to Japan by General Douglas MacArthur.
She received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple and Harvard Universities in the United States; Glasgow and Berlin Universities in Europe; Delhi University in India and Witwatersand University in South Africa.
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