NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- In 1980, former president Jimmy Carter designated June 27 as National Helen Keller Day -- exactly 100 years after her birth. "Helen Keller refused to let her handicaps cut her ...
Helen Keller got a lot done in her lifetime. Much of it had nothing to do with her disability, though some of it did. But her stature as a public figure has created myths that reveal as much about ...
The first time I heard the name “Helen Keller” – the first time I understood who that was and had any kind of sense of all that the name could represent – I couldn’t have been more than 10 or 12 years ...
While the world marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, the history of people with disabilities is still not fully taught in schools. In the U.S., if American schoolchildren ...
LifeHouse Theater presents the original musical “Helen Keller,” part of its Sunday Night Special series, this week. “Helen Keller” made its return to the LifeHouse stage last June to a sold-out ...
♪♪ ♪♪ -This program includes historical descriptions of people with disabilities that many now consider offensive. Viewer discretion is advised. (Rebecca Alexander) My name is Rebecca Alexander. I am ...
Mrs. Ida Hirst-Gifford, advance agent for Helen Keller, famous blind and deaf woman, is in the city today, making arrangements for the appearance here of Miss Keller, who is going about the country in ...
I closed my eyes and took a few steps toward Helen Keller's pump last week. You know the one. It's the pump, at Keller's Ivy Green birthplace in Tuscumbia, where Anne Sullivan poured water into the ...