Helen Keller: Champion of the Disabled

hough Helen Keller became deaf and blind after a childhood illness in 1882, she grew up to be a renowned author, activist, and speaker. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller overcame major obstacles in her life and used them to become an advocate for those experiencing discrimination and hardship. This inspiring biography uses Keller's own words as a primary source, so that readers can better know and understand this amazing woman and leader.

Helen Keller writes about her spiritual development, particularly about how she was influenced by by Emanuel Sedenborg's writings on Christianity..

A collection of Helen Keller's writing on socialism, women's suffrage, and economic theory.

The personal recollections and correspondence of Helen Keller, supplemented by the reports of her teacher Annie Sullivan, reveal the details of her early life.

Helen Keller's biography of her teacher and companion of many years, Anne Sullivan.

'The World I Live In brings us intimately close, in her own valiant words, to the mind of a woman for whom language was life.' - The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work - one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here she closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, with the argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.

Anne Sullivan Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero. The real story of this brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman, who described herself as a badly constructed human being, has never been completely told.   Beyond the Miracle Worker complicates the typical Helen-Annie feel-good; narrative. This biography presents a new and fascinating tale about a wounded but determined woman and her quest for a successful, meaningful life.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book.

The history of Helen Keller too often focuses on her early life, ignoring her later role as a high-spirited, opinionated activist. This book explores the side of Helen Keller we don't often get to hear about.

Describes the life and accomplishments of the deaf and blind woman who overcame her disabilities to become an educator, activist, and author.

Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life--particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism--has been overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Best known for her advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, and a defender of the radical International Workers of the World.