James C. Haddock, a Dublin activist, disability social worker and son of Doris “Granny D” Haddock, died Thursday at 75.
Haddock received attention when he assisted his mother’s walk across America in support of campaign finance reform. But he was already widely known as one of the driving forces behind the lawsuit that led to the closure of the Laconia State School, where developmentally disabled New Hampshire residents were sent to be segregated from the outside world.
Friends and family described Haddock, who died just over a year after his mother, as a man engaged in a lifelong fight for equality for all.
His life was cut short because of a fall down a flight of stairs in his home, according to his oldest son. He broke his hip and received a concussion from which he did not recover.
Haddock was flown by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he died at 8:40 p.m.
Born in Nashua in 1935, Haddock started to become active in seeking equal rights when he saw during his time at Springfield College in the 1950s and 1960s that certain bars would not admit black people.
But it was after he moved to Dublin in the mid- to late-1960s that he got involved in equality advocacy for the developmentally disabled, the cause that would define his life.
Leaving a job selling computers, Haddock took a job teaching for the Peterborough School District in 1965. He was given a class of special education students who were then called “retarded.”
Haddock enrolled in Keene State College to study special education and moved on to teach at the New Hope Center, which served the special needs population of Cheshire County. He became its director in 1968.
Under his leadership, New Hope expanded to include a vocational program called New Horizons, aimed at integrating mentally and physically handicapped people into the community. Work at New Hope-New Horizons led to his becoming director of the New Hampshire Association for Retarded Citizens.
Haddock became involved with a 1979 class-action lawsuit filed against the state which led to the closing of the Laconia State School.
Source: Sentinel Source
Haddock received attention when he assisted his mother’s walk across America in support of campaign finance reform. But he was already widely known as one of the driving forces behind the lawsuit that led to the closure of the Laconia State School, where developmentally disabled New Hampshire residents were sent to be segregated from the outside world.
Friends and family described Haddock, who died just over a year after his mother, as a man engaged in a lifelong fight for equality for all.
His life was cut short because of a fall down a flight of stairs in his home, according to his oldest son. He broke his hip and received a concussion from which he did not recover.
Haddock was flown by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he died at 8:40 p.m.
Born in Nashua in 1935, Haddock started to become active in seeking equal rights when he saw during his time at Springfield College in the 1950s and 1960s that certain bars would not admit black people.
But it was after he moved to Dublin in the mid- to late-1960s that he got involved in equality advocacy for the developmentally disabled, the cause that would define his life.
Leaving a job selling computers, Haddock took a job teaching for the Peterborough School District in 1965. He was given a class of special education students who were then called “retarded.”
Haddock enrolled in Keene State College to study special education and moved on to teach at the New Hope Center, which served the special needs population of Cheshire County. He became its director in 1968.
Under his leadership, New Hope expanded to include a vocational program called New Horizons, aimed at integrating mentally and physically handicapped people into the community. Work at New Hope-New Horizons led to his becoming director of the New Hampshire Association for Retarded Citizens.
Haddock became involved with a 1979 class-action lawsuit filed against the state which led to the closing of the Laconia State School.
Source: Sentinel Source
James C. Haddock, a Dublin activist, disability social worker and son of Doris “Granny D” Haddock, died Thursday at 75.
Haddock received attention when he assisted his mother’s walk across America in support of campaign finance reform. But he was already widely known as one of the driving forces behind the lawsuit that led to the closure of the Laconia State School, where developmentally disabled New Hampshire residents were sent to be segregated from the outside world.
Friends and family described Haddock, who died just over a year after his mother, as a man engaged in a lifelong fight for equality for all.
His life was cut short because of a fall down a flight of stairs in his home, according to his oldest son. He broke his hip and received a concussion from which he did not recover.
Haddock was flown by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he died at 8:40 p.m.
Born in Nashua in 1935, Haddock started to become active in seeking equal rights when he saw during his time at Springfield College in the 1950s and 1960s that certain bars would not admit black people.
But it was after he moved to Dublin in the mid- to late-1960s that he got involved in equality advocacy for the developmentally disabled, the cause that would define his life.
Leaving a job selling computers, Haddock took a job teaching for the Peterborough School District in 1965. He was given a class of special education students who were then called “retarded.”
Haddock enrolled in Keene State College to study special education and moved on to teach at the New Hope Center, which served the special needs population of Cheshire County. He became its director in 1968.
Under his leadership, New Hope expanded to include a vocational program called New Horizons, aimed at integrating mentally and physically handicapped people into the community. Work at New Hope-New Horizons led to his becoming director of the New Hampshire Association for Retarded Citizens.
Haddock became involved with a 1979 class-action lawsuit filed against the state which led to the closing of the Laconia State School.
Source: Sentinel Source
Haddock received attention when he assisted his mother’s walk across America in support of campaign finance reform. But he was already widely known as one of the driving forces behind the lawsuit that led to the closure of the Laconia State School, where developmentally disabled New Hampshire residents were sent to be segregated from the outside world.
Friends and family described Haddock, who died just over a year after his mother, as a man engaged in a lifelong fight for equality for all.
His life was cut short because of a fall down a flight of stairs in his home, according to his oldest son. He broke his hip and received a concussion from which he did not recover.
Haddock was flown by helicopter to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he died at 8:40 p.m.
Born in Nashua in 1935, Haddock started to become active in seeking equal rights when he saw during his time at Springfield College in the 1950s and 1960s that certain bars would not admit black people.
But it was after he moved to Dublin in the mid- to late-1960s that he got involved in equality advocacy for the developmentally disabled, the cause that would define his life.
Leaving a job selling computers, Haddock took a job teaching for the Peterborough School District in 1965. He was given a class of special education students who were then called “retarded.”
Haddock enrolled in Keene State College to study special education and moved on to teach at the New Hope Center, which served the special needs population of Cheshire County. He became its director in 1968.
Under his leadership, New Hope expanded to include a vocational program called New Horizons, aimed at integrating mentally and physically handicapped people into the community. Work at New Hope-New Horizons led to his becoming director of the New Hampshire Association for Retarded Citizens.
Haddock became involved with a 1979 class-action lawsuit filed against the state which led to the closing of the Laconia State School.
Source: Sentinel Source
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