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She became a well-known educator, a famous journalist, and a published writer. She also became the founder of ACIU and earned her Bachelor degree in arts. Helen Keller stood as a big role model because of her honor and accomplishments. She worked her way up as the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor's Degree in arts.Anne began her task of teaching Helen by manually signing into the child's hand. Anne had brought a doll that the children at Perkins had made for her to take to Helen. By spelling "d-o-l-l" into the child's hand, she hoped to teach her to connect objects with letters. Helen quickly learned to form the letters correctly and in the correct order, but did not know she was spelling a word, or even that words existed. In the days that followed, she learned to spell a great many more words in this uncomprehending way.

Driven by open access to deaf communities connected via ASL, Keller embarked on literary, political, and broader activist crusades. Experiencing the discrimination common against members of the deaf and blind communities, Keller reached out to those outside of those immediate communities, rousing Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and numerous US presidents to her cause. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Georgia. She died on June 1, 1968 at Arcan Ridge.
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She worked the vaudeville circuit.She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.She was extremely political.She fell in love and almost eloped.She remains influential and respected even after her death. Helen suffered a stroke in 1960, and from 1961 onwards, she lived quietly at Arcan Ridge, her home in Westport, Connecticut, one of the four main places she lived during her lifetime. The others were Tuscumbia, Alabama; Wrentham, Massachusetts; and Forest Hills, New York. She was born and raised in Tuscumbia,

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