Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
Title:
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
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Summary:
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 Published:
1986
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Physical Description:
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level R kit.
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ISBN:
9780876142905
9780876144732
Publisher:
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, ©1986.