Blog Post Number 5: Helen Keller

Author: Helen Keller

Pages: 396 pages

Date: 5/17/2013

Summary 

The final chapter of Helen's autobiography reads like a distinguished "who's who." She wants to acknowledge the people who have helped to make her life a happy one. Some of these people are famous, some are not and some want to remain anonymous. Her only unkind words are for newspaper reporters, whom she includes in the category of "the stupid and curious," and for people who are condescending to her.

She got her own understanding of religion from Bishop Brooks, who taught her that "there is one universal religion, Helen – the religion of Love," and that "God is Love." After he died, she continued to find his way of approaching religion the most "soul-satisfying." She also knows Henry Drummond, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Whittier, Dr. Edward Hale, Mr. And Mrs. Laurence Hutton, Mark Twain, John Burroughs, and many others.

 

1. Describe 3 significant contributions that your figure made and the impact of each?

-1956..She was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Harvard University.

-She spoke out for women's rights and pacifism, birth control.workers rights and many other progressive causes. 

-She spent a lot of time raising funds for organizations working with the blind and deaf. 

2. What is one MORE unique thing that you have discovered about your figure?

 

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors. In 1965 she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.

 3. What are the different awards and prizes that your figure has been awarded?

• On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.
• In 1965 she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.In 1999,
• Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.In 2003,
• Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter.
• The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her.
• There is a street named after Helen Keller in Getafe, Spain.
• In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.

4. Describe the death of your figure.

Helen Keller died on June 1st in her sleep.