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Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently abled. I've always been your host, Lawrence Seiler. On this television program today, this is a part two of our show Last Time, which we talked about deafness. We spoke about Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison and their work. And we're going to go through the history of Helen Keller and Sullivan and their work. First, we would like to thank Green Mountain Support Services, Washington, Carolina Mental Health, Muslim Media Corporation, which includes the Park Chester Times, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, and the Muslim Community Report. And we're also members of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter. And now on the show, let's talk about Helen Keller and what she did. Helen Keller was born, let's go here. You can find all this information on Wikipedia and many other sites about Helen Keller's life. Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller was born July, I'm sorry, June 27th, 1880. And she died, she died, she passed away, June 1, 1968. She was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. And she lost sight and hearing after about of illness at the age of 19 months. She then communicated primarily using home signs at the age of seven. By the way, we're going to be showing pictures as we're talking about her life. When she met her first teacher and lifelong companion, and Sullivan, who taught her language reading and writing. Sullivan's first lessons involved spelling words on Keller's hand, such as water and the word doll, because back then, also back then in the 1800s, people with special needs weren't treated great. They were usually placed in institutions. She was taught reading and writing, and Sullivan's first lessons involved spelling words on Keller's hand that showed her the objects around her. She also learned how to speak and understand other people's writing using the Tagoma method. And after the education of both specialists and mainstream schools, she attended the Radcliffe College and Hartford University to become the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Helen Keller wrote and worked for the American Foundation for the Blind, AFB, from 1924 until 1968. During which time, she toured the United States and traveled around 35 countries around the globe, also advocating for those with vision loss. I'm one with vision loss, but I don't let my disability get the best of me. Keller was a prolific author of 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays on topics ranging from animals to Mahatma Gandhi. Keller campaigned for those with disabilities for women's suffrage, labor rights, and world peace. She joined the Socialist Party of America in 1909. She also was the supporter of the NAACP and the original member of the American Civil Rights, sorry, the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1933, when her book, How I Became a Socialist, was burned by Nazi youth, she wrote an open letter to the student body of Germany condemning censorship and prejudice. The story of Keller, because also in 1933, Hitler gave speeches all around the world, which really started World War II later on. The story of Keller and Sullivan became most famous by Keller's autobiography in 1903, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations for film and stage called The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace is now a museum and sponsors annual Helen Keller Day. Her June 27th birthday is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania. The story of Keller and Sullivan was made famous by Keller's 1903 biography, The Story of My Life, and its adaptations of film and stage. The Miracle Worker, her birthplace is now a museum, and they sponsor a Helen Keller Day. June 27th birthday is commemorated by Helen Keller Day in Pennsylvania, and the centennial year of her birth was recognized by the presidential proclamation of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Now in terms of Miracle Worker, there are several movies here and television Helen Keller movies. Let's go here, several movies about Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker was in 1962. Helen Keller in her story was 1954. Hitler's Reign of Terror was 1934, and Helen Keller was mentioned in that. 1919 is called Deliverance. That's another movie, but The Miracle Worker was the most famous movie, and it also was in the 1970s with Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller as a small child. Now there's a cartoon that I'd like to tell everybody about. There's a Helen Keller cartoon, which is also a good one for young children who don't know about. It's called Helen Keller. It's on DVD, but it's by, it's called Animated Hero Classics. Let's roll that and we can also run the video. Let's roll that video. Thank you and welcome back. We're going to edit that in. It's by Animated Hero Classics, by Nest Productions, and it is with Helen Keller. Let's go over the books of Helen Keller and her life. I'll give you guys some book recommendations. There are several books here. We can probably show the book covers. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, which is a great book, the one we mentioned. The Story of My Life was published in 1903. Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. Portions of it were adapted by William Gibson for 1957 Playhouse 90 production of The Broadway Play. In 1962, a Hollywood feature film, and the Indian film called Black, B-L-A-C-K, the book is dedicated to, was dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell because it mentions him as well. The publication history of the Story of My Life, Keller began to first write the Story of My Life in 1902, which she still was a student at Radcliffe College, which was the first published in The Ladies' Home Journal that same year with the series of installments following when it was published by Double Day, Page, and Company. There are other books by her. I will mention those. And she gave also a bunch of speeches to our hard life. We'll go over those as well. The World I Live In, there's a book called Helen Keller. I determined, let's go over that a little bit, Determined Life Snapshots. And there's also Who Was Helen Keller? It was also published by someone. Helen Keller wrote several books. The Light in My Darkness is one of my favorites. And there's a children's book called I Am Helen Keller by Brad Meltz. There's one called Midstream, The Later Life of Helen Keller. There's one called Optimism by Helen Keller. And it's her with a cap and gown because she went to college. There's one. There's another book, a picture book of Helen Keller, which is, this is actually a video, a picture book by Helen Keller. It's a first grade book. There's another book by Helen Keller called Out of the Dark. Helen Keller's Journal, Song of the Stonewall, Helen Keller, The Open Door, Helen Keller, Helen Keller, and the teacher. There's several, lots and lots of books by her. Helen Keller and the Teacher and the Story of Helen Keller and Sullivan. This book is by Joseph P. Lass at the heart of the wonderful biography is the brilliantly portrayed relationship between the two great American women whose lives were bound together for all time. Something fascinating on every page. Now, let's go into Ann Sullivan's life. Now, Ann Sullivan was the assistant and teacher of Helen Keller. She's really important to note for anyone studying the life of Ann Sullivan. Okay, Ann Sullivan was born Joanne Mansfield Sullivan, April 14, 1866, and October 20, 1936, she passed away. Was an American teacher and was best known as the instructor of the lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan constructed Tacoma, an eye disease which partially blinded her and without reading or writing skills. She received education as a student at the Perkins School for the Blind. After graduating at age 20, she became a teacher to Helen Keller. Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawan, Massachusetts. According to her baptismal certificate, her name at birth was Joanne Mansfield Sullivan. However, she was called Ann or Annie from birth. She was the oldest child of Thomas and Alice Klosky Sullivan who emigrated to the United States from Ireland due to the great famine. When Ann Sullivan was five years old, Sullivan constructed bacterial eye disease and a bacterial eye disease called Tacoma, which would cause many painful infections over time, made her nearly blind. She at the age of eight, her mother died from tuberculosis and her father abandoned the children two years later for fear that he could not raise them on her own. She and her younger brother, James, were sent to a rundown overcrowded Ames House in Tugsbury, Massachusetts. Today, the Tugsbury hospital and their younger sister, Mary, were left to their aunt. Jimmy had a weak hip condition and died from tuberculosis four months into their stay. Ann remained at Tugsbury after his death and endured two unsuccessful eye operations due to the reports of cruelty to inmates at Tugsbury, including certain practices and cannibalism. The Massachusetts Board of State Charities launched an investigation into the institution in 1875. This is coming from Wikipedia for those that don't know that, so I'm just letting you know I'm reading from Wikipedia here. Due to now in February 1877 Ann was sent and Sullivan was sent to the sores, the sores there charity hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts, which she had another unsuccessful operation. Remaining there, she helped the nuns and the wards and ran on errands in the community until July of that same year which she was sent to the city of Firmary. Now just to let you know that a lot of people with disabilities were sent to institutions or they were known as out of sight, out of mind which changed over the years due to several situations and laws. You're not allowed to really institutionalize anybody anymore even though they still have some institutions that are still around. Instead of returning to the facility for predominantly ill and in-sync patients, she was housed with single mothers and unmarried pregnant women. Due to a subsequent inspection in Tugsbury in 1880 by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, now state inspector of charities Ann beceased him and he allowed her to be admitted to the Parking School for the Blind within nine months for her plea to be granted because she was begging to be educated. Ann began her studies at the Perkins School for the Blind on October 7th, 1880. Although her rough manners were in her first years at Perkins and it was humiliating for her, she managed to connect with a few teachers and made progress for her learning and it goes on here now in terms of her awards. In 1932, Keller and Sullivan were each awarded honorary fellowships from the Educational Institute in Scotland. They were awarded honorary degrees from Temple University. In 1955, Keller was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University and in 1956 the Director's College at Perkins School was named for the Keller's Macy College. In 2003, Sullivan was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. So we only have a couple minutes left. Let's go into some of the speeches that Keller made. Okay, there's several pieces on YouTube people can look at. I get to remember 1948 Keller made a speech in Sydney, Australia. Helen Keller speaks out and there's also a Helen Keller channel on YouTube. Now there's rare footage of 1930 of Keller with the help of Sullivan and is how Helen Keller learned to talk. Now her most famous speech and quote here, one of the quotes from Helen Keller, I am not dumb now, I am not dumb now and strike against war. She basically spoke about the war and how bad it was. So let me go, one of the most famous quotes of Helen Keller which is really important. Now if you want to look at Helen Keller quotes you can go online, there's plenty of them. Okay, there's a lot of famous quotes here so let me go over just a couple of them. Life is neither daring, is neither a daring adventure or nothing. The best and most beautiful thing in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart and alone we can do little. Together we can do so much. And with that I would like to say thank you to our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Muslim Media Corporation which includes the Park Center Times, New York Parrot and the Muslim Community Report. We would also like to thank our partners, Yechad, New York and New England as well as the Orthodox Union. And the one of our greatest partners of Abel DeLonair is the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired. And we are also members of the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter. Arlene's not here today, we would like to thank our sponsors again, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health and many many others. This puts an end to this edition of Abel DeLonair. I'm Lauren Seiler. Thank you for joining me today so we can talk about the history of certain topics. We're going to be doing that from now on adding some history segments to Abel DeLonair. Thank you very much for joining me on this edition of Abel DeLonair. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Abel DeLonair is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Abel DeLonair include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx dot info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps, Domestic and International, Anchor FM and Spotify. Partners with Abel DeLonair include Yachad New York and New England where everyone belongs, the Orthodox Union and the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired. 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