Shoes for everyone
Subtitle: a story about Jan Matzeliger
By: by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, Hetty, ill.
Series: A Carolrhoda creative minds book
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889 -- Juvenile literature.; Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889.; Shoemakers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Inventors.; Shoe industry -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
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.