Anne Sullivan

            Anne Sullivan is the most famous teacher of the deaf in American History.  She limited herself to one pupil –  Helen Keller.  The two met on March 3, 1887.  Keller was the daughter of well-to-do ex-Confederate officer. She had a stable family life, although she was the cause of Read more

                Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama.  Her father had been a captain in the Confederate army and was running a cotton plantation at the time.  She was a normal child until age 19 months when she caught what doctors called “brain fever”.  It was Read more