The activist Helen Keller lost the ability to see or hear 19 months after her birth on this day, June 27, in 1880—and went on to show the world that a disability like hers didn’t have to be a barrier ...

Travel north from Bridgeport through Fairfield to Sport Hill Road in Easton and you eventually come to Helen Keller Middle School. Go west a ways to the other side of Easton and you can see the house ...

American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller examines one of the 20 th century’s human rights pioneers in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The new documentary rediscovers the ...

Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf before the age of two, is recognized for her strength and courage when faced with overwhelming odds. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. However, ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on June 3, 1968. This story was written by Alton Slagle.) It is hardly sufficient to say that Helen Keller was a great and noble woman. Hers was a life so full ...

Helen Keller was a famous lecturer, author, activist and educator who advocated for underprivileged individuals, such as women, people with disabilities and African Americans. So, it's no wonder that ...

Author and humanitarian Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind since childhood, is shown during her documentary film, The Unconquered, on June 18, 1954. The movie, also known as Helen Keller in Her Story ...

Ivy Green Located in the town of Tuscumbia and built in 1820, just one year after Alabama became the 22nd state in the U.S., Ivy Green is the birthplace and childhood home of Helen Keller. Born in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Mark Twain once said the two most interesting characters of the 19 th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller, but a series of TikTok-based conspiracy theories have young ...

Workers on Tuesday were cutting down a popular 200-year-old oak tree at the Alabama childhood home of Helen Keller, the deaf and blind writer who as a young girl was famously rescued from its branches ...