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Byrd D. Crudup
Byrd D. Crudup (September 15, 1897 – March 12, 1960) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina—from 1929 to 1931, Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1935 to 1940, and at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1946 to 1948. Crudup was also head basketball coach at North Carolina Central for one season, in 1927–28. Early life, playing career, and education Crudup was born on September 15, 1897, in Edenton, North Carolina, to Byrd Crudup and Delia Stark Crudup. He graduated from Rindge Manual Training School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crudup played college football at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He was named to the All- Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) team in 1923 and 1924 and was captain of the 1924 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edenton, North Carolina
Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, on Albemarle Sound. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census. Edenton is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. In recent years Edenton has become a popular retirement location and a destination for heritage tourism. Edenton served as the second official capital of North Carolina, during the colonial era as the Province of North Carolina, though other than housing the governor's official residence, it did not otherwise house any other governmental functions. It served as capital from 1722 to 1743, when it was moved to Brunswick. The town was the site of the Edenton Tea Party, a protest organized by several Edenton women in 1774 in solidarity with the organizers of the Boston Tea Party. It was the birthplace of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved African American whose 1861 autobiography, ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'', is now considered an American classic. Edenton gai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
