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  2. Frederick Patterson - Wikipedia

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    He was the first African American to own and operate a car manufacturing company. [ 9 ] After producing somewhere between 30 and 150 vehicles, he had difficulty getting financing for expansion, Patterson decided to change his business rather than compete head on with the major Detroit industry.

  3. Granville Woods - Wikipedia

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    Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2] Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.

  4. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]

  5. C.R. Patterson and Sons - Wikipedia

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    C.R. Patterson and Sons was an American automotive company ... The Pattersons were the first African Americans to ... The first cars were sold for $685, with ...

  6. Richard Spikes - Wikipedia

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    Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.

  7. Lucean Arthur Headen - Wikipedia

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    Lucean Arthur Headen (26 August 1879 – 17 September 1957) [1] was an American aviator, inventor, and entrepreneur. An early African-American barnstormer in the 1910s, he later co-founded the first United States-wide African-American automobile racing association, the Afro-American Automobile Association, and founded companies in the United States and England.

  8. Andrew Jackson Beard - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Jackson Beard (March 29, 1849 – May 10, 1921) was an African American inventor, who introduced five improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and 1899, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement.

  9. McKinley Thompson Jr. - Wikipedia

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    (November 8, 1922 – March 8, 2006) [1] was the first African American automotive designer, and he was the first African American Designer to work at the Ford Motor Company. [2] [3] Thompson was a designer on the first generation Ford Bronco, and also was a designer on the first generation Ford Mustang, Ford Thunderbird, and Ford GT40 racing ...