Helen Keller Reading Mrs. Coolidges
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Helen Keller Reading Mrs. Coolidges
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Keller reading First Lady Coolidge's lips, January 12, 1926. Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was 19 months old when she contracted an illness, which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis, that left her deaf and blind. In 1887 Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, became Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship. A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her anti-war convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes. Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home. She died in her sleep in 1968 at the age of 87. Mrs. Coolidge, the former Miss Grace Anna Goodhue, worked as a teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf, before meeting and marrying the future 30th president of the United States.
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