Helen Keller
Helen Keller was a great humanitarian. He was born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, America. Her father was captain Arthur Keller and mother Katherine Adams Keller. Her family was not rich. The source of income of her family was cotton plantation. She was born as a healthy child. But in 1882 she became blind, deaf and dumb because of an attack of a high fever. She started her career as a teacher for the deaf in Horace Mann School. For the improvement of her communication skill for studying regular academic subjects, she attended the wright Humason School in New York city. Then she decided to receive higher education. She took admission in Cambridge School for Young Ladies. Later, she took graduation with honours degree from Redeliffe College. She worked althrough her life for the disabled people. She died on June 1, 1968, a few weeks short of her 88th birthday.
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