Art Carty

Arthur Thomas Carty


Born:
February 22, 1902
Michigan

Died:
January 13, 1997
Southern Pines, NC


Career
1919-20 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School)
1923-24 Alma College (College)
1924-25 Alma College (College)
1925-26 Detroit Pulaski Post (ABL)
1926-27 Detroit (Independent)
1927-28 Detroit Cardinals (ABL)
1927-28 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1928-29 Detroit Tools (Independent)
1928-29 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1929-30 Detroit/ Jackson Olympics (NPBL)
1929-30 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1930-31 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1931-32 Fintex - Detroit (Independent)
1931-32 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1932-33 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1933-34 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1934-35 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1935-36 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1936-37 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach
1949-50 Northwestern High School - Detroit (High School) Head coach

A talented athlete from Detroit, Carty attended little Alma College in rural Michigan where he earned his degree in education while starring on the basketball team. He played professional basketball for a few years around Detroit before landing a coaching job at his old high school, Northwestern. Carty was later the Athletics Director at Cass Tech, but in 1949, returned to Northwestern to coach again. He later was appointed principal at Northern High School and found himself embroiled in a student-lead boycott of the school in 1966. Lead by student Michael Batchelor, over a thousand Northern students boycotted school to protest Carty's old-school authoritarian approach to school leadership. Another grievance against Northern was the apparent differences between resources and education levels between schools with majority white students and schools with a predominantly black student body, including Carty's Northern HS. This wound up forcing Carty out of Northern, and was yet another sign of the racial disharmony in one of America's largest cities that would one year later witness one of the ugliest race riots in American history.

He married Irene Anguish in 1926 but that union ended in divorce. He remarried to Prudentia Huffman in 1939

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Stats:
http://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/Art-Carty/