Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger

Creative Minds Biography

by Barbara Mitchell

The inspiring 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.

Ages: 8 to 12
63 pages
paperback

ISBN: 0876144733
EAN: 9780876144732