Helen Keller
She was a lecturer and writer, also she was an advocate for the deaf and blind. She spent much of her life working to improve the quality of life for the disabled. A childhood illness left her deaf, blind and mute, but her devoted tutor Anne Sullivan taught her to communicate. The first blind and deaf person to graduate from college, she mastered many languages and became a renowned author and lecturer. In 1964, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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