🗓#OTD in 1880, American disability rights advocate Hellen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller accomplished remarkable feats throughout her life, one of which includes being the first deaf blind person to earn a college degree. 🎥Seriously Amazing Objects | Smithsonian Channel

On this day in 1887, 21-year old Anne Sullivan took on a new pupil in Tuscumbia, Alabama: Helen Keller. She worked hard to teach Keller, who was blind and deaf, how to communicate. The two remained close until Sullivan’s death in 1936. 🎥 Seriously Amazing Objects: Legends | Smithsonian Channel

THE MIRACLE WORKER (1962)