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Jun 29, 2020 · Lillian Richard, who portrayed Aunt Jemima for 23 years. (Courtesy of Vera Harris) This article is more than 4 years old. Quaker Oats announced earlier this month it's rebranding Aunt Jemima...
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Frank Brown was the man whose image became the face of Uncle Ben’s in 1946, said Caroline Sherman, a spokeswoman for Mars Food, the brand's parent company. Brown was a maitre d' in a Chicago restaurant. Not much else is known about him, but Sherman said there is an effort to learn more. "I don’t have a lot of details about his past,'' she said, "bu...
Conagra Brands, the maker of Mrs. Butterworth's, said the syrup bottles shaped like a matronly woman were "intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother.'' But last month, Conagra became one of several companies to say it would start "a complete brand and packaging review.... We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities, and w...
Richard's family said she was the third woman to portray Aunt Jemima. Born in 1891, the fifth of 11 children, Richard eventually left her hometown to try to earn a better living. "You can’t think about 2020," said Harris, her great-niece. "You have to go back and try to imagine how it was in 1911. ... If you were a woman, you did domestic work. You...
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Feb 10, 2021 · Aunt Jemima is based on a real woman, Nancy Green, who was a storyteller, cook, and missionary worker. Nancy Green actually worked with the Aunt Jemima brand until 1923.
Rosie Lee Moore Hall portrayed Aunt Jemima from 1950 until her death in 1967. Hall was born on June 22, 1899, in Robertson County, Texas. She worked for Quaker Oats in the company's Oklahoma advertising department until she answered their search for a new Aunt Jemima.
Aug 12, 2020 · 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.
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Jun 18, 2020 · Nancy Green, a former slave from Kentucky, played the first Aunt Jemima. Green was a middle-aged woman living on the South Side of Chicago, working as a cook and housekeeper for a prominent...
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 ...
