Helen Keller And Her Teacher Anne Sullivan

Helen Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

Here, Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan appear in a Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this footage Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned to talk.



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