Title: Shoes got soles
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: Juvenile literature, Shoe industry, Biography, African American inventors
Places: United States
People: Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889)