Helen keller

Helen Keller was one of the most famous women in America in the early 20th century. Both deaf and blind, she overcame her disabilities to become a bestselling author and popular lecturer. Keller’s tutor, Anne Sullivan, became rather famous in her own right, for her role in training the young Keller. Less well-known, but just as significant, is the man who put Keller and Sullivan together — Michael Anagnos, an immigrant from Greece, and the longtime head of Boston’s Perkins Institute for

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