Shoes for everyone: a story about Jan Matzeliger
(1986)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Lerner Publishing Group : Made available through hoopla, 1986
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780761390954 (electronic bk.) MWT11773499, 0761390952 (electronic bk.) 11773499
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. However, Jan refused to let prejudice keep him from achieving his dream of making a shoe-lasting machine to replace the tedious, time-consuming hand sewing that held up shoe manufacturing processes in his day
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