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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Birth: | 27th June, 1880 |
Death: | 1st June, 1968 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Author, Lecturer |
Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. She was an American author, activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971. She wrote several books include: The Story of My Life(autobiography), Optimism, The World I Live In, The song of the stone wall, Out of the dark, Light in My Darkness, Midstream: My Later Life, Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy, and The World I Live In and Optimism.
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