Make them with aunt jemima pancake flour and your family will ask where you got your wonderful southern cook. A line from a 1927 ad read. Aunt jemima pancake mix a labor saving product was marketed with comparisons to a time and place when some american white women had the ultimate labor saving device.
The chicago woman originally portrayed the aunt jemima trademark and efforts are being made to preserve her legacy as quaker oats removes the aunt jemima name and image from their popular pancake. From 1933 1952 but was also. The final woman to ever portray aunt jemima in public was ann short harrington who not only traveled the country portraying the character and played her on t v.
Vera harris said the. The family of a texas woman who once portrayed aunt jemima has called on the breakfast brand to reconsider its decision to scrap the ubiquitous portrait from its products. Aunt jemima s freedom was negated or revoked in this role because of the character s persona as a plantation slave not a free black woman employed as a domestic.
Nancy green actually worked with the aunt jemima brand until 1923. Aunt jemima is based on a real woman nancy green who was a storyteller cook and missionary worker.
