550K views · 6.4K reactions | Devenue sourde et aveugle dès son plus âge, Helen Keller a lutté toute sa vie pour améliorer celle des autres. | Brut | Facebook

🗓 OTD in 1880, American disability rights advocate Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Among many other accomplishments, she was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). To learn more, tune into Seriously Amazing Objects: Legends tonight at 11 PM. ⬇️ | Smithsonian Channel

This video explores the incredible story of Helen Keller — who became blind and deaf at just 19 months old — and how she still managed to learn spoken language. Through years of dedicated work with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Helen practiced placing her fingers on a speaker’s lips, throat, and face to feel vibrations and mouth shapes. Using these tactile cues, she learned to form sounds, then words, and eventually full sentences. Her achievement remains one of the most inspiring examples of huma