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.
year: 1986
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: matzeliger, jan ernst, d. 1889, juvenile literature, matzeliger, jan ernst, d. 1889, shoe industry, united states, juvenile literature, african american inventors, biography, african americans, inventors