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Helen Keller

- June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968


- American Author
- Disability rights advocate
- Political activist and a lecturer
- Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama
- Lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months
- She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of 7,
- When she met her first teacher and life-long companion, Anne Sullivan.
- Sullivan taught her the language, including reading and writing.
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