Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama with sight and hearing but fell ill at 19 months old, leaving her blind and deaf. In 1887, she met her teacher Anne Sullivan who taught her how to communicate using finger spelling. Helen went on to become the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree, graduating from Radcliffe College in 1904. She authored several books and advocated for improved conditions for blind people, traveling the world to raise funds. Helen Keller died in 1968 at the age of 87.