Editing Helen Keller (section)

==Posthumous honors==
In 1999, Keller was listed fifth (at 30 percent) in [[Gallup's List of Widely Admired People|Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th century]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKv8PXwIiFkC |title=The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1999 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8420-2699-4 |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gallup_Poll/kKv8PXwIiFkC&pg=PA248 248] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Lawrence |year=2010 |title=Gallup Poll: Widely Admired People of the 20th Century |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/gallup-poll-widely-admired-people-of-the-20th-century/polkadotking |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Ranker |language=en |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224112430/https://www.ranker.com/list/gallup-poll-widely-admired-people-of-the-20th-century/polkadotking |url-status=live }}</ref> That same year, Keller was also named one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 6, 1999 |title=Time 100 Persons of The Century |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=May 8, 2023 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220085203/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2003, [[Alabama]] honored its native daughter on its [[50 State Quarters|state quarter]].<ref>{{cite web| publisher=[[United States Mint]]|url=http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?flash=yes&state=AL| title=A likeness of Helen Keller is featured on Alabama's quarter| date=March 23, 2010| access-date=August 24, 2010| archive-date=December 1, 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201022605/http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?flash=yes&state=AL| url-status=live}}</ref> The Alabama state quarter is the only circulating U.S. coin to feature braille.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theus50.com/alabama/quarter.php |title=The Official Alabama State Quarter |publisher=The US50 |date=March 17, 2003 |access-date=October 21, 2013 |archive-date=October 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021144020/http://www.theus50.com/alabama/quarter.php |url-status=live}}</ref> The Helen Keller Hospital in [[Sheffield, Alabama]], is dedicated to her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.helenkeller.com/about<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20090413030156/http://www.helenkeller.com/ -->|url-status=dead| title=About| publisher=Helen Keller Hospital| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808235013/https://www.helenkeller.com/about|archive-date=August 8, 2024|access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref> Streets are named after Keller in [[Zurich]], Switzerland; in [[Alabama]] and [[New York (state)|New York]] in the United States; in [[Getafe]], Spain; in [[Vienna]], Austria; in [[Lod]], Israel;<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bush |first=Lawrence |date=June 26, 2016 |title=June 27: Helen Keller and the Jews |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/june-27-helen-keller-and-the-jews-2 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |magazine=Jewish Currents |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224112433/https://jewishcurrents.org/june-27-helen-keller-and-the-jews-2 |url-status=live }} See also {{cite web |date=January 1, 1970 |title=רחוב הלן קלר, לוד |trans-title=Helen Keller Street, Lod |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9F+%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%A8,+%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%93&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.631141,93.076172&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109211533/https://www.google.com/maps?f=q&q=%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9F+%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%A8,+%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%93&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.631141,93.076172&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A |archive-date=January 9, 2022 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |publisher=Google Maps |language=he }}</ref> in [[Lisbon]], Portugal;<ref>{{cite web |date=January 6, 1968 |title=Avenida Helen Keller<!-- Toponymy section of the Lisbon Municipality website --> |url=http://toponimia.cm-lisboa.pt/pls/htmldb/f?p=106:1:2892419774596293::NO::P1_TOP_ID:283:#ancora |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324201656/http://toponimia.cm-lisboa.pt/pls/htmldb/f?p=106:1:2892419774596293::NO::P1_TOP_ID:283:#ancora |archive-date=March 24, 2012 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |website=Toponímia de Lisboa<!-- Lisbon Municipality website --> |language=pt }}</ref> in [[Caen]], France; and in [[São Paulo]], Brazil. A preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in [[Mysore]], India, was originally named after Keller by its founder, [[K. K. Srinivasan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/the-world-at-your-fingertips-helen-kellers-legacy-touches-deafblind-children-in-india/ |title=The World at your Fingertips: Helen Keller's legacy touches deafblind children in India|publisher= Radio Netherlands Archives |date=February 18, 2004 |access-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027025801/https://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/the-world-at-your-fingertips-helen-kellers-legacy-touches-deafblind-children-in-india/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1973, Keller was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skinner |first=Joe |date=October 25, 2021 |title=Helen Keller biography and timeline |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/helen-keller-biography-career-timeline-facts-quotes/19032/ |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=American Masters |publisher=PBS |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224125443/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/helen-keller-biography-career-timeline-facts-quotes/19032/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

A stamp was issued in 1980 (pictured) by the [[United States Postal Service]], depicting Keller and Sullivan, to mark the centennial of Keller's birth.<ref>{{cite web |title=Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan |url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/women-on-stamps-part-2-education-enriching-lives/helen-keller-and-anne-sullivan |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=National Postal Museum}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hotchner |first=John M. |date=March 30, 2021 |title=Readers respond to Helen Keller stamp designs |url=https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/readers-respond-to-helen-keller-stamp-designs |access-date=December 24, 2024 |magazine=Linns Stamp News |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224102505/https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/readers-respond-to-helen-keller-stamp-designs |url-status=live }}</ref> That year, her birth was also recognized by a presidential proclamation from U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>{{cite web |date=June 19, 1980 |title=Proclamation 4767—Helen Keller Day |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-4767-helen-keller-day |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=The American Presidency Project |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224103007/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-4767-helen-keller-day |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKp0RtwhLn4C |title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents |year=1980 |publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lKp0RtwhLn4C&pg=PA1148 1148] |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref> Pennsylvania annually commemorates her June 27 birthday as Helen Keller Day.<ref>{{cite news |last=McAuliffe |first=Josh |date=March 6, 2016 |title=Blind Association's Helen Keller Day marks 87th year as organization's biggest fundraiser |url=http://thetimes-tribune.com/lifestyles/blind-association-s-helen-keller-day-marks-87th-year-as-organization-s-biggest-fundraiser-1.2015847 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309095700/http://thetimes-tribune.com/lifestyles/blind-association-s-helen-keller-day-marks-87th-year-as-organization-s-biggest-fundraiser-1.2015847 |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |access-date=December 24, 2024 |work=The Scranton Times-Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |year=2024 |title=Helen Keller Day in the USA 2024 |url=https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/helen-keller-day-in-the-usa-2024/ |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Awareness Days |language=en-GB |archive-date=December 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224112430/https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/helen-keller-day-in-the-usa-2024/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 7, 2009, the State of Alabama donated a [[Statue of Helen Keller|bronze statue of Keller]] to the [[National Statuary Hall Collection]], as a replacement for its 1908 statue of education reformer [[Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/keller.cfm | title=Helen Keller | publisher=[[Architect of the Capitol]] | access-date=December 25, 2009 | archive-date=December 2, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202205431/http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/keller.cfm | url-status=live}}</ref> Keller was posthumously inducted into the [[Alabama Women's Hall of Fame]] in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mathews |first=Bill |date=November 29, 2010 |title=Alabama Women's Hall of Fame |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-womens-hall-of-fame/ |access-date=December 24, 2024 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en-US |postscript=. Last updated November 27, 2023.}}</ref> She was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.<ref>{{cite news| title=Harper Lee Among Inaugural Inductees Into Alabama Writers Hall of Fame| work=[[The Huffington Post]]| date=June 8, 2015|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/harper-lee-alabama-writers-hall-fame_n_7533756.html| access-date=March 15, 2016| archive-date=December 4, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204125314/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/harper-lee-alabama-writers-hall-fame_n_7533756.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

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File:Alabama quarter, reverse side, 2003.jpg|Helen Keller as depicted on the Alabama [[50 State quarters|state quarter]]. The braille on the coin is [[English Braille]] for "HELEN KELLER".
File:Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan issue of 1980.jpg|Helen Keller (left) and Anne Sullivan
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