Shoes got soles
Subtitle: Jan Earnest Matzeliger inventor
By: by Doris J. Sims ; illustrations by Rodel A. Santiago ; designed by Chuck Johnson
Contributors: Santiago, Rodel A.
Publisher: Children's Cultu-Lit Book Co., Publisher
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Shoe industry; Biography; African American inventors
Description: A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.