Mitchell, Barbara. <br/><br/>
Shoes for everyone :  a story about Jan Matzeliger / 
by Barbara Mitchell ; ill. by Hetty Mitchell. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  Carolrhoda,  1986. 
 - 63 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 3-7.  5.  840  Lexile 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0876144733 (pbk.) 0876142900 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>86004157 /AC 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Matzeliger, Jan Ernst, d. 1889. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inventors--Biography.<br/>Shoe industry--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Biography.<br/>African American history<br/>Inventors and Inventions
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>685/.31/0028  B  92