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Contribution #67 of 365
Frederick Douglass Patterson
Automobile Manufacturer — Patterson-Greenfield
1915
The contribution
How this work helped shape America
Frederick Douglass Patterson led C.R. Patterson & Sons from carriage production into automobile manufacturing and brought the Patterson-Greenfield automobile to market in 1915. The family enterprise became the first and only Black-owned and operated automobile manufacturing company in the United States.