Ecleamus Ricks

Ecleamus Ricks

When Ecleamus Ricks, 62, retired from a career in public service, his intent was to relax and do some farming. But the social challenges surrounding him in Macon, Georgia, were too big to ignore, and so in 1997 he joined the Macon-Bibb County Health Department as an...
Donald Stedman

Donald Stedman

Unspeakably squalid conditions, screaming, naked people running down hallways – that was the norm at a Tennessee hospital and school for people with severe mental and physical disabilities in the late 1950s. A psychologist-in-training at the time, Donald Stedman...