Thomas Moorehead – Entrepreneurship, Automobile Dealerships

Hailing from Monroe, Louisiana, Thomas Moorehead always wanted to start his own business. While working at the University of Michigan as Director of Community Services, and pursuing his Ph.D. in urban and regional planning, after receiving his B.A. in Business Administration from Grambling State University, his fraternity brother James Bradley of Bradley Automotive Group introduced him to the car dealership business and took him under his wing. That guidance would be what propelled Thomas to open his first dealership in 1987 and start him on the path to becoming one of the first African Americans to be awarded a new BMW dealership in Sterling, Virginia and THE first African American awarded a full-service Rolls-Royce franchise.