Title: Shoes for everyone
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: Biography, Juvenile literature, Shoemakers, African Americans, African American inventors, Inventors, Shoe industry, African american inventors
Places: United States
People: Jan Ernst Matzeliger (d. 1889)
LC classification: TS990.M335 M58 1986