In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to improve the lives of black children.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

She became a full-time nurse for the wounded on their way from the fields of battle to the hospital.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

She demands that her racing sponsors be eco-friendly and she is pushing her sport to become more eco-friendly too.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Between nineteen fifty-three and nineteen fifty-nine she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies: "How To Marry a Millionaire."

VOA: special.2009.12.06

In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

In nineteen fifty-one she played the character "Gigi" in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

She is easily frightened. For example, she is too chicken-livered to walk down a dark street alone at night.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

But she also finds a former lover there -- and finds that she still has feelings for him.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24