Author, political activist and lecturer Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, which she did at Harvard University. She campaigned for women's suffrage, labor unions, socialism, anti-militarism, advocated for people with disabilities and was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. She met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson and maintained friendships with many famous people including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. She was a guest at Knowles Hill in 1943.