Talk:Frederick Patterson

Some sources

• the old highschool in Greenfield
• Coachfield article
• THE PATTERSON CAR
• State of Ohio on relation of CR Patterson vs The Board of Education
• Baltimore Afro-American Aug 1980 - some details are different. Federicks' mother is white, not mulatto named Qutz and he graduated high school in 1883 and left college because he didn't like the conditions.
• Smith, "Four Wheel First", Ohio Magazine
• Henry A. May, First Black Autos: CR Patterson & Sons Company, Mt. Vernon, NY: Stalwart Publications, 2006) Patterson .
• Edwardian Promenade, blog, not an RS
• Joseph Cox, Great Black Men of Masonry, 2002. p 262]
• Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-breaking and Pioneering Historical Events, edited by Jessie Carney Smith (1994); 2nd edition, Visible Ink Press, 2003, pp. 78-79

97.85.168.22 (talk) 08:35, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Sources

• Book on CR Patterson & Sons Co., by Charles Wilson is self-published, so is not RS.
• Monette Bailey, "CR Patterson & Son: America’s Only African-American Automobile Manufacturers", African Americans On Wheels magazine, January 2005. Parkwells (talk) 23:02, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Source disputes

The Baltimore Afro-American Aug 1980 and other sources seem to be in disagreement. I'm not sure which to rely upon and it's not clear if he was the first AA athlete at Ohio State and whether he graduated. Some source says he did and the other not. Some forces likely really did not want him to graduate. 97.85.168.22 (talk) 03:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

There seems to be a lot of disputed information from the Baltimore Afro-American, Aug 1980. I question the reliability of this source. Some examples of these discrepancies with this source - the mother's maiden name is spelled differently, this is the only source I see naming the mother as white (not mulatto), the place of birth for Charles Richard Patterson is shown as "West Virginia" instead of Virginia, only four children were named but the family had five children, and etc. Jooojay (talk) 08:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)