Honest, Seasoned Banker, Small Biz & Transportation Advocate, Former MARTA & Chamber Board Chair, UVA Grad, Cleveland Browns Diehard Fan, KA-PSI Life Member
I share this award with all MARTA Board Members and Staff as we've worked hard to improve all facets of our Transit System. My appointing jurisdiction - DeKalb County, my Bank family and my actual family and friends for supporting me! #award @MARTACEO @CTBank@FredorFreddy
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated placed on cease and desist for hazing
They join the Alphas suspended in September.
Bloomington- we have a problem… https://t.co/ts3BQxreQW
@michaelsorrell I worked in the Research Library at the front desk all 4 years. It taught me the discipline of coming to work on time, working well with others, being productive and providing good customer service. Foundational traits that are still utilized today.
The first and only black-owned automobile in history was the Patterson-Greenfield Automobile
Company, pioneered by Frederick Patterson and his father Charles R.
Patterson.
—Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. His father, Charles Rich Patterson created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company located in Greenfield, Ohio. Beginning in 1865, the company built fashionable carriages. Frederick Patterson inherited the company upon the death of his father in 1910 and began building motorized vehicles. The first Patterson automobile, the Patterson-Greenfield, rolled off the line on Sept 23, 1915. Unfortunately, Henry Ford debuted the Model T on Oct 1, 1908 and by that point had captured most of the American car-buying market.
—Named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Patterson was born on Sept 17, 1871 in Greenfield, Ohio to Josephine and Charles Richard. In 1888, Patterson attended Ohio State University where he played football and may have been the first Black player at the school on the varsity team. His passion, however, lay in the family business so he moved home in 1897 and joined his father and brother at C.R. Patterson and Sons. When his father died in 1910, Frederick assumed leadership of the business.
—The Patterson-Greenfield sold for $850 and was reputed to be a higher quality automobile than Henry Ford’s “Tin Lizzy” or Model T. The Patterson-Greenfield car had a forty horsepower Continental four-cylinder engine and reached a top speed of fifty miles per hour. Unfortunately, the Model T had cornered the automobile market. It sold initially for $825 in 1908 when first introduced to the public, but over the years as Ford production expanded, the price by 1915 was $360, the year the first Patterson-Greenfield debuted.
—From 1915 to 1920, the company produced 150 Patterson vehicles of two styles, the two-door roadster and the big four-door touring car. The company slogan, “If it’s a Patterson, it’s a good one” described the company’s carriages as well as the motor vehicles. C.R. Patterson and Sons, however, could not obtain capital to continue manufacturing the automobiles. By 1920 it had shifted production to buses and trucks and Patterson renamed the company to the Greenfield Bus Body Company. During the 1930s competition from Detroit became increasingly more intense.
@UVABlkAlumni@pwilliamsforson Psyche,
What a wonderful Achievement!!! Congrats to my classmate!!! Continue to Educate and Continued Success!!!
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