💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Imani B. ‘20) 

🎧 Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1937
🎧Graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in Science and Pre-Med
🎧Served as a member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen during World War II
🎧Began his broadcasting career as a disc jockey on WERD, the first black-owned radio station in America
🎧In 1954, he joined the staff of WAOK, the country’s first 24-hour African-American radio station
🎧In the 1960s, Patrick left radio to become Atlanta’s first black bail bondsman, coming to the aid of southern Civil Rights activists. 🎧By the mid-1970s, Patrick was doing a morning drive slot at WXAP-AM, later moving to afternoons on WYZE-AM. By the early nineties he could still be heard doing a midnight to 3 a.m. slot on WQXI-AM, which was later bought by Disney Radio.
🎧Became he first Black man to run for Fulton County Sheriff
🎧Worked on the late Rev. Hosea Williams 1990 campaign and attempted a dark horse mayoral bid in 1998.

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Source: BlackThen.com