Rare Footage of Helen Keller Speaking

Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, learned to talk despite being deaf and blind.

Here she is with her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan.  In this footage (from 1930) Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned to talk.

 

 

via Smithsonian.

Kind of cool.

 

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