On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.
In 1965 she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair
In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century
The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her.
In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.