Helen+Keller





For a biography, see [|Helen Keller from the American Foundation for the Blind]

See also [|Helen Keller Kids Online Museum]
 * ===== Deaf and blind at birth, she supported progressive causes and women's rights as well as opposing discrimination against people with disabilities. =====
 * She advocated for women's suffrage, birth control, and pacifism.
 * Became a socialist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
 * Traveled the world inspiring millions of people with disabilities
 * In 2009, a [|statute of Helen Keller was opened at the U. S. Capitol]in Washington, D.C.

Go here for a [|stack of resources on Helen Keller]collected by Sharon Edwards on Delicious.

[[image:primary_sources.PNG]]**Primary Sources**



 * [|The Story of My Life](1905), an autobiography she began writing when she was 22 years-old, published as an e-book by the University of Pennsylvania


 * See also her essay, [|How I Became a Socialist] (November 3, 1912)


 * Click here to read the FBI files on Helen Keller.


 * "What is the IWW?" and "Why I Became an IWW" speeches by Helen Keller


 * Click here for "I Must Speak" by Helen Keller



**[[image:Multimedia.png]]Multimedia Resources**
[|Helen Keller Speech], a re-enactment of a speech given by Keller at the 1925 Lions Clubs International Convention, on YouTube with the text included.

[|Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan], 1930s newsreel footage on YouTube

[|Helen Keller Tribute Film] from the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame

For more materials, including historic photographs, see [|Helen Keller: An Introduction] from the American Association for the Blind.

See the Facebook page for the film Becoming Helen Keller

**[[image:Rotating_globe-small.gif]]Multicultural History**
[|The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller] from Yes! Magazine (July 12, 2012)

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**[[image:Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 12.30.24 PM.png]]Lesson Plans**
[|Exploring Disability using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy] from ReadWriteThink

See [|Helen Keller resources] from the Disability History Museum