The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger's Lasting Invention poem and his touch burns like

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and music mornings they used to share

Breonna Taylor and others pushed compliance with an unjust system to its breaking point

has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most terrible incident in our shared past

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The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger's Lasting Invention poem and his touch burns likeIn 1873, at the age of 21, Jan Ernst Matzeliger immigrated to America, having left all that was familiar behind in South America. He arrived with hopes and dreams of a bright future in this new country. Though Jan had no formal training, he was highly skillful with tools and machinery, having worked in his father's mechanic shops. But no one wanted to hire a Black immigrant who didn't speak English. Yet Jan didn't give up. He finally got a job at a