[3] On June 19, 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued Proclamation #4767 to honor Helen Keller and her accomplishments.

Every year on June 27, an annual fashion show is held as a fundraiser in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.

[8][9] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near-complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the 1959 play and 1962 film The Miracle Worker.

Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama is now a museum[10] and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day".

Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth.