Elvira Garner - Citizendia

Elvira Garner (birth, death) was a 20th Century Florida author and watercolor illustrator. For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. Her best-known children's book Ezekiel, published by Henry Holt in 1937, detailed the story of a black boy who lived in Sanford, Florida with his Mammy, Pappy and sister Emancipation[1]. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 Henry Holt may refer to Henry Holt (North Dakota politician (d Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sanford is a city in and the County seat of Seminole County, Florida, United States. Emblematic of Florida when it was part of the Deep South, Ezekiel was written in African-American dialect, it was popular in its time, but fell out of favor when books like Little Black Sambo were labeled racist. The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος dialektos) is a variety of a Language that is characteristic of a particular group of The Story of Little Black Sambo, a children's book by Helen Bannerman, a Scot who lived for 30 years in Madras in southern India, List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Now highly collected as an artifact of black Americana[2] and African American fiction. Ezekiel's type was drawn, with illustrations inserted into the type.

In 1939, she published Sarah Faith Anderson, Her Book, which detailed life in St. Augustine of a girl whose father was a missionary to the Seminoles, captured the feeling of 19th century Florida in words and illustrations [3]. And in 1941, she published Way Down in Tennessee [4].

Her son is NASA scientist Douglas Garner. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program

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