| 词条 | Maurice Ruddick |
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Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. He was chosen as Canada's "Citizen of the Year". Ruddick and six others were trapped 4000 feet underground, and were there for nine days. Ruddick cheered his comrades with his singing, and the mother of one of the miners later declared "If it wasn't for Maurice, they'd all have been dead." The disaster attracted international media attention. The Governor of the State of Georgia, Marvin Griffin, invited nineteen of the survivors to vacation at one of his state's luxurious resorts, Jekyll Island, usually reserved for millionaires. This was in the Deep South in the time of Jim Crow laws, i.e. strict segregation between black and white people. When he discovered that one of the miners was black, Griffin said that Ruddick would have to be segregated from the others. When the miners heard this, they were reluctant to accept the offer, but Ruddick agreed to go on the Governor's terms, knowing how much the others really wanted the vacation.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} Ruddick, his wife, and the four of his twelve children who accompanied him on the trip all stayed in a separate area of the island, in trailers built by Griffin especially for the occasion, and attended separate ceremonies from the white miners.[1] Maurice Ruddick died in 1988. He is buried in Hillside Cemetery.[2] His daughter, folk singer Val MacDonald, recorded a song that he composed in the mine, "The Springhill Mine Disaster Song."[3] He was featured in a Canadian Heritage Minute.[4] Maurice's widow said in an interview in the early 2000s that the day of the 1958 bump was his birthday, or had been the day before. That day as Maurice left to work in the mines, she packed him a piece of cake, which he later shared amongst the other trapped miners. This makes the date of his birth October 22 or 23rd, 1912. Though, when the Nova Scotia births for 1912 became available online, it is seen his birthday is 13 September 1912, in Joggins. Also his birth name is Maurice Albert Reddick. See also
References1. ^{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yz8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67 | title=Springhill survivors on segregated spree | journal=LIFE Magazine |date=December 1958 | volume=45 | issue=23 | pages=49}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53213981|title=Maurice A "The Singing Miner" Ruddick (1912 - 1988)|work=Find a Grave|accessdate=8 September 2011}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Swanson|first=Diane|title=Tunnels!|series=True Stories from the Edge|year=2003|publisher=Annick Press|isbn=1-55037-780-9|page=35|chapter=Survival at Springhill}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10224|title=Maurice Ruddick|accessdate=8 September 2011|work=Historica|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927041744/http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10224|archivedate=27 September 2011|df=}} External links
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