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Helen Keller Timeline Cards

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1880

(June 27) Helen Keller was born.

1882

Helen Keller loses her

sight, hearing and power of

speech.

1887 (Narch)

Anne Sullivan arrives in

Tuscumbia to teach Helen manual sign language.

1888

Helen visits Perkins

Institution for the Blind in Boston.

1886

The Keller family meet with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who

recommends contacting Nichael Anagnos, director of Perkins

Institution for the Blind in Boston, which

Captain Keller does.

1887 (April)

Anne makes a ‘miracle’

breakthrough, when signing W-A-T-E-R into Helen’s

hand at the family’s water

pump.

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1889

Helen and Anne return to

Perkins, where Helen is

considered a ‘guest’ of the

school.

1894

Helen enters Wright-

Humason School in New

York City

1896

Helen enters Cambridge School for

Young Ladies

1891

Helen writes the story ‘The

Frost King’ and is accused of

plagiarism.

1896

Helen’s father, Captain

Keller, dies.

1896

Helen becomes a devout

Swedenborgian.




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1897

Helen and Anne leave Cambridge

School and move to Nassachusetts.

Helen continues her college preparatory

studies.

1899

Helen receives her certificate of admission to

Radcliffe College.

1903

Keller writes and publishes The Story of

my Life

1904

Helen and Anne buy a

home on seven acres of land in Wrentham.

1900

Helen enters Radcliffe

College as a member of

the freshman class of 1904.

1904

Helen is the first deaf-blind person to graduate from

Radcliffe College, receiving a bachelor

of arts degree, graduating with a

distinction.




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1905

Anne Sullivan marries

John Nacy

1908

Helen writes and publishes The World I

Live In

1913

Helen writes and publishes Out of the Dark. Helen and Anne begin their career on

the lecture circuit.

1909

Helen and John Nacy join the

Socialist Party of Nassachusetts

and Helen becomes a suffragist.

1914

John Nacy leaves Anne, though they

never officially divorce.

1914

Polly Thomson joins Helen

and Anne’s household.




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1918

A silent film based on

Helen’s life is produced. It is

called, Deliverance.

1920

Helen begins her career in

vaudeville with Anne Sullivan.

1924

Helen and Anne begin

their work for the American Foundation

for the Blind.

1916

Helen takes out marriage license

with Peter Fagan, though her

mother forces her to renounce her

engagement.

1917

Helen and Anne sell the farm in Wrentham and move with Polly to Forest Hills,

New York.

1921

Helen’s mother, Kelly Keller, dies.




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1929

An autobiographical account of Helen’s later

life, Nidstream, is published.

1927

Helen writes and published Ny

Religion. It is her account of her Swedenborgian

beliefs.

1925

Helen makes an appeal before the

International Convention of

Lions Clubs, asking the Lions to

become ‘Knights of the Blind.’

1930

Helen, Anne and Polly travel

abroad vising Scotland, Ireland

and England.

1931

Helen, Anne and Polly participate in the first World Council for the Blind. They also travel to France and Yugoslavia.

1932

John Nacy dies. Helen is elected to AFB’s board of

trustees. The three women visit Scotland and

England again.




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1936

Helen and Polly travel to England, Scotland

and France.

1936

(October, 20) Anne Sullivan

Nacy dies.

1937

Helen tours Japan, Korea

and Nanchuria with Polly.

1938

Helen Keller’s Journal, the

personal account of

Helen’s life in 1936 and 1937 is

published.

1933

Helen, Anne and Polly visit

Scotland.

1939

Helen sells her home in Forest

Hills and moves to Arcan Ridge, Connecticut.




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1946

Fire destroys Arcan Ridge, along with

almost all of the household possessions.

1946

Helen and Polly make their first world tour

for the American Foundation for the

Overseas Blind. They visit London, Paris, Italy, Greece and

Scotland.

1947

The household move into Arcan Ridge 2, which is

almost an identical replica of the Arcan

Ridge 1.

1948

Helen and Polly begin a tour of Australia and

New Zealand representing the

AFOB. When they reach Japan, Polly

has a stroke and the rest of the tour is

cancelled.

1943

Helen begins visiting the

blinded, deaf and disabled soldiers of

World War II.

1953

Helen and Polly continue to travel all over the world – Europe, South

Africa, the Niddle East, and Latin

America.




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1955

(June) Helen is the first woman to receive an

honorary degree from Harvard

University.

1955

(Feb) Helen and Polly tour the

Far East, including India

and Japan.

1955

(Dec) Helen’s biography,

Teacher, about Anne Sullivan

Nacy is published.

1956

The Unconquered wins an Academy

Award for the best feature length documentary of

1955.

1953

A documentary film of Helen’s life is

released. Originally it was named, The

Unconquered, though later it was renamed

Helen Keller in Her Story.

1956

Helen makes peace with the Perkins

Institution, attending the

dedication of the ‘Keller-Nacy Cottage.’




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1968

(June 1) Helen Keller dies in her sleep at her Easton, Connecticut

home.

1957

Helen and Polly tour Iceland

and Scandinavia.

1961

Helen suffers her first stroke and

retires from public life.

1964

President L Johnson confers the

Presidential Nedal of Freedom upon Helen, though she is unable

to attend the ceremony.

1960

Polly Thomson

dies.

1956-1957

William Gibson’s play, The Niracle

Worker, which was based on Helen’s

early life with Anne, debuts on

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