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AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEALERS Listed By Date of Appointment

In collecting historical data, it was possible to develop a time line of those African-Americans who were the first within the industry to be franchised based on appointment date. It is believed the listing below is 98% accurate. As research continues, this information will be up-dated as appropriate.

	Date	Individual/City-State	Franchise
1.	1923	Homer B. Roberts – Kansas City, Mo.	Hupmobile
2.	1929	Roberts-Campbell Chicago, Ill. a} (see notes below)	Hupmobile
3.	August 1936	Dan Gaines – Chicago, Ill.	Ford
4.	1940	Ed Davis – Detroit, Mich.	Studebaker
5.	Sept. 1957	Ed Davis – Detroit, Mich. b}	Ford
6.	1961	Robert H. Nelson, Jr.Chicago, Ill.	MG-Peugeot
7.	August 1962	Robert P. Neal – Chicago, Ill.	Triumph-BMC
8.	Nov. 1963	Ed Davis – Detroit, Mich.	Chrysler-Ply.
9.	1964	Robert P. Neal – Chicago, Ill.	Sunbeam
10.	July 1966	C. G. Hairston – Danville, Va.	Fiat
11.	August 1967	Robert H. Nelson Jr. & Ernie Banks - Chicago, Ill.	Ford
12.	October 1967	Al Johnson – Chicago, Ill.	Oldsmobile
13.	October 1967	Robert P. Neal – Chicago, Ill.	Toyota
14.	October 1967	A. Gordon Wright Venice, Calif.	Ford
15.	November 1967	Adam McFadden Los Angeles, Calif.	Pontiac
16.	May 1968	Kenneth O. Wilson Baltimore, Md.c}	C-Dodge
17.	August 1968	Todd Cochran & Roy Knight San Francisco, Calif.	C-Dodge
18.	August 1968	Don M. Thomas – Newark, N. J.	Chrysler-Ply.
19.	October 1968	Arthur Bailey – Brooklyn, N. Y.	Chrysler-Ply
20.	Nov. 1968	Clem Edwards & Alvin Dinwiddie Chicago, Ill.	Ford
21.	February 1969	Theodore & Butler Chapelle Chicago, Ill.	Pontiac
22.	March 1969	Lou Brock – E. St. Louis, Ill.	Chrysler–Dodge
23.	March 1969	Dan Brown – New Rochelle, N. Y. d}	L-M
24.	April 1969	Edward Frazier – Tuskegee, Ala.	Chevrolet
25.	April 1969	Van Yassall – Germantown, Pa.	American Motors
27.	July 1969	Richard J. Wood – Washington, DC	Olds
27.	August 1969	Leslie Bland- Chicago, Ill.	L-M
28.	Sept. 1969	Roy Q. Hanks – Richmond, Calif.	Pontiac
29.	Sept. 1969	Robert E. Hill – Compton, Calif.	C-Dodge
30.	Sept. 1969	William W. Nelson Richmond, Calif.	Chev.
31	Sept. 1969	Horace Noble – Chicago, Ill.	C-Dodge
32.	October 1969	Warren Y. Allen – Compton, Calif.	C-Ply.
33.	November 1969	Burt Clemons – Cleveland, Ohio	C-Ply.
34.	December 1969	James Price & Irvin Reeves Queens Village, N. Y.	L-M
35.	1969	Henry L. Fisher, John E. Barber & Baron H. Martin - Franklin Park, Mass.	American Mtrs.
36.	January 1970	Nathan G. Conyers – Detroit, Mich.	Ford

First African American Women Dealers

	Year	Individual/City-State	Franchise
1.	1979	Barbara Wilson - Ferndale, Mi.	Honda
2.	1983	Jackie Edgar - Jeanerette, La.	Chevrolet
3.	1986	Jackie Edgar - Breaux Bridge, La.	Ford

Notes:

a} Campbell was likely an investor without any operational responsibilities.
b} Distributor
c} Investment Group
d} 20% ownership but Brown made day-to-day management decisions as dealer principal.

Sources: Based on research conducted by Rusty Restuccia beginning in 1995. Primary sources were the individual minority dealer associations, newspaper and magazine articles.