Aunt jemima pictures
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The untold story of the real 'Aunt Jemima' and the fight to preserve her legacy
Under the grass it is barely noticeable: an unmarked grave covering one of America’s "Hidden Figures" for nearly a century.
You probably have never heard her name, but Nancy Green has likely been in your kitchen before. Green created the Aunt Jemima recipe, and with it, the birth of the American pancake.
"Her face on the box, that image on the box, was probably the one way that households were integrated," Sherry Williams, president of the Bronzeville Historical Society in Chicago, told ABC News.
Long before she pioneered that famous mix, Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
After the Civil War, she moved to a deeply divided Chicago, becoming a strong voice at Olivet Baptist Church, the city’s oldest black congregation.
"This church was noted for its work to shield those who had escaped slavery, who arrived here in Chicago because there were many slave catchers in Chicago still pursuing people who were of African descent," Willia
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Nancy Green, The Original ‘Aunt Jemima’ born
Nancy Green in
Aunt Jemima Logo
*On this date, we mark the birth of Nancy Green in 1834. She was a Black storyteller and one of the first (Black) corporate models in the United States. Nancy Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
In 1890, she was hired by the R.T. Davis Milling Company, which was looking to employ a Black woman as a Mammy archetype to promote their new product. In 1893, she was introduced as Aunt Jemima at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in the guise of a plantation slave, where it was her job to operate a pancake-cooking display. Her amiable personality and talent as a cook for the Walker family, whose children grew up to become Chicago Circuit Judge Charles M. Walker and Dr. Samuel Walker, helped establish a successful showing of the product, for which she received a medal and certificate from the Expo officials.
After the Expo, Green was offered a lifetime contract to adopt the Aunt Jemima moniker and promote the pancake mix. However, this was likely part of the
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Aunt Jemima
Former brand of breakfast foods
This article is about the food products brand formerly known as Aunt Jemima. For the vaudeville performer using the Aunt Jemima stage name, see Tess Gardella. For the brand that replaced Aunt Jemima, see Pearl Milling Company.
Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company and was advertised as the first "ready-mix" cooking product.[1][2]
Aunt Jemima was modeled after, and has been a famous example of, the "Mammy" archetype in the Southern United States.[3] Due to the "Mammy" stereotype's historical ties to the Jim Crow era, Quaker Oats announced in June 2020 that the Aunt Jemima brand would be discontinued "to make progress toward racial equality",[4] leading to the Aunt Jemima image being removed by the fourth quarter of 2020.[5]
In June 2021, amidst heightened racial unrest in the United States,[6] the Aunt Je
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