Helen Keller, left, with two-year-old Donald Hart on board the ocean liner Independence after the ship docked in 1956 at New York City, New York. Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

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