Helen keller timeline facts

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  • When did helen keller graduate college
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    June 27, 1880
    Helen Keller fryst vatten born to Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller at Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
    February 1882
    After being struck bygd illness, Helen loses both her sight and hearing. No definitive diagnosis of the disease is ever determined.
    Summer 1886
    The Keller family meets with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who recommends contacting Michael Anagnos, director of Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston. Captain Keller writes to Anagnos, requesting a teacher for Helen. Anagnos contacts his star pupil and valedictorian, Anne Mansfield Sullivan.
    March 3, 1887
    Anne Sullivan arrives in Tuscumbia and begins teaching Helen manual sign language.
    April 5, 1887
    Anne makes the “miracle” breakthrough, teaching Helen that “everything had a name,” by spelling W-A-T-E-R into Helen’s grabb as vatten from the family’s vatten pump flows over their hands.
    May 1888
    Anne, Helen, and Kate Keller travel north, visiting Alexander Graham Bell, and meetin

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    1880Helen Keller is born

    Helen was born as a healthy child in Tuscumbia, AL. 1881Helen became ill with meningitis

    When Helen was still a baby she became sick with meningitis. The illness caused her to lose her sight and hearing. 1887Helen meets Anne Sullivan

    Helen's parents knew that Helen needed extra help. They hired a tutor to help her, and the tutor's name was Anne Sullivan. 1887Helen makes her first signs

    Anne taught Helen how to spell words in sign language. Her first signs were "water" and "doll". 1888Helen begins to make progress

    Anne loved Helen, and over the years she taught Helen how to read and write in Braille, a language for the blind. 1888Helen moves to New York

    Anne and Helen moved to New York so Helen could go to a school for the blind. A few years later she also attended a school for the deaf. 1900Helen goes to college

    With Anne's help, Helen was able to go to Radcliffe C

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    1880: On June 27, Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

    1882:  Following a bout of illness, Helen loses her sight and hearing.

    1887: Helen’s parents hire Anne Sullivan, a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, to be Helen’s tutor.  Anne begins by teaching Helen that objects have names and that she can use her fingers to spell them. Over time, Helen learns to communicate via sign language, to read and write in Braille, to touch-lip read, and to speak.

    1900: After attending schools in Boston and New York, Helen matriculates at Radcliffe College.

    1903: Helen’s first book, an autobiography called The Story of My Life, is published.

    1904: Helen graduates cum laude from Radcliffe, becoming the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

    1915: Helen, already a vocal advocate for people with disabilities, co-founds the American Foundation for Overseas Blind to support World War I veterans blinded in combat. This organization later becomes 

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