 That philosophy of self-help didn’t last very long after Rudd was invited to and participated at the NAACP convention in Cleveland in 1919.Many Catholic Clergy and Rudd’s close friends always described him as highly intelligent, a great businessman, and fluent in several languages, but one key thing that stuck out about Rudd was his unbreakable faith in his catholic upbringing and roots.Later in his life, Rudd returned to his childhood home of Bardstown, Kentucky.