Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger by Barbara Mitchell

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Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger

Barbara Mitchell with Hetty Mitchell (Illustrator)

63 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction biography childrens history emotional medium-paced
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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 fo...

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