The first Black owned and operated car company

C. R. Patterson and Sons, the first African American car company in the U.S. competed against Ford’s Model T with its Patterson-Greenfield that included a 4-CYL Continental engine. This entrepreneurial story began with Charles Richard Patterson born into slavery. He escaped in 1861 and built a successful horse carriage business that later transitioned into his automobile business. C.R.’s son Frederick Patterson would eventually inherit the business and turn it into a car, bus, and truck manufacturer operating out of Greenfield, Ohio. Learn more at https://amzn.to/3f5hJ3Y

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