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107 Jamz Celebrates Black History- Today In History
107 Jamz Celebrates Black History- Today In History
107 Jamz Celebrates Black History- Today In History
Today, we solute shoe making machine inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger.  Jan was born in Paramaribo, a trading post started by the Dutch, the capital and largest city of Suriname.  His father was a Dutch engineer and his mother a black Surinamese slave.