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Helen Keller was born as Helen Adams Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA.
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Helen was sent with her father to seek help from Dr. Julian Chisolm an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore for advice.
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Anne Sullivan started teaching Helen by arriving at Helen's home. She started teaching her by spelling words on her hands.
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Helen started attending Perkins Institute for the Blind.
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One of the earliest known writing or hers was "The Frost King" which she wrote whe she was eleven years old. She was being charged guilty of plagirising Canby's "The Frost Fairies".
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Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to get special education from the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and educate under Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
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Keller and Sullivan moved back to Massachusetts and Helen entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies
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Helen was admitted to Radcliffe College where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House.
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She was 22 years old when "The Story of My Life" was published which recieved help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband.
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She recieved her graduation from Radcliffe College at the age of 24. Helen was the first deaf and blind person ever to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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The book "The World I Live In" talked about her feelings of the world she felt living inside.
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She joined the Industrial Workers of the World known as the IWW or the Wobblies.
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She found the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization along with George Kessler which devoted its work and research in the areas of vision, health and nutrition.
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During 1906 to 1908 she wrote for IWW.
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Keller appeared in the silent film "Deliverance" which told the story of her life in a melodramatic and allegorical style.
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She greatly helped found the American Civil Liberties Union.
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During 1909 to 1921 she remained a Socialist Party member to which she actively campaigned and wrote many pieces in support of the working class.
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Her spiritual autobiography "My Religion" was published.
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Sullivan's health decreased.
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Keller was attacked by several strokes which confined her to her home in her final years.
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In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded her with the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom which is regarded as one of the United States' highest two civilian honors
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She died in her sleep.
