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Anne Sullivan Macy was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
Sullivan in 1887
Anne Sullivan Memorial in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.
Sullivan (standing) with Helen Keller, c. 1909
Helen Keller and Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888
Helen Keller
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Keller holding a magnolia, c. 1920
Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Keller (left) with Anne Sullivan vacationing on Cape Cod in July 1888
Helen Keller portrait, 1904. Due to a protruding left eye, Keller was usually photographed in profile until she had her eyes replaced c. 1911 with glass replicas for "medical and cosmetic reasons".