Helen Keller, the activist, writer and lecturer left blind and deaf by childhood illness, graces the side of a new "Alabama" quarter -- her image stamped alongside her name written in Braille ...

Helen Keller beat out a moon rocket, a Cherokee chief and other symbols for a spot on the state quarter. It will be the first U.S. coin in circulation to include Braille. The design unveiled by ...

Issued in 2003, the Alabama quarter bears the image of Helen Keller, a Tuscumbia-born speaker, author and humanitarian. The quarter also features representations of the state tree, the longleaf ...

Born in 1880, Helen Keller was a healthy baby girl. Her parents had been members of the Alabama aristocracy, ... The Alabama state quarter is the only circulating U.S. coin to feature braille.

BIRMINGHAM -- Helen Keller beat out a moon rocket, a Cherokee chief and other symbols for a spot on Alabama's state quarter, which will be the first U.S. coin in circulation to include Braille.

But her politics didn't keep Keller off the state quarter. And her statue soon will appear in the U.S. Capitol, replacing educator, congressman and Confederate Gen. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry as one ...