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Good Morning, America from the Helen Keller Collection

(009.00.00) Good Morning, America from the Helen Keller Collection

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Good Morning, America, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and poet Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), was originally published in 1928. The braille version, shown here, was produced in 1955. Both Keller and Sandburg were advocates for working-class people, and in 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson simultaneously awarded each the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest honor bestowed upon an American civilian.