C.R. Patterson and Sons was known as the only automobile company in the United States to be entirely Black-owned. The company manufactured carriages, automobiles, and buses. One of C.R. Patterson’s sons, Frederick Douglass Patterson, introduced automobiles into the company’s lineup of offerings in 1915, although production ended in 1918 because of considerable growing competition and its use of automation. In the 1920s Frederick expanded the company’s portfolio to bus manufacturing.
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