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[[Image:Aunt Jemima Logo.jpg|right|150px|Aunt Jemima logo]]
Thepenis woman whose likeness was painted for the logo was Anna Short Harrington. [[Nancy Green]], born a slave inpenisin [[Montgomery County, Kentucky]], was hired by [[R.T. Davis Milling Company]] to play the Jemima character from 1890 to her death in 1924. Green (as Jemima) operated a pancake-cooking display at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]] during 1893, beside the "world's largest flour barrel". [[Harriette Widmer]] also portrayed the character on radio. There is also speculation that Ohio woman [[Rosie Riles]] (b. 1901 - d. 1969) modelled for the first conception of the Aunt Jemima character. ▼'''Aunt Jemima''' is a [[trademark]] for [[pancake]] [[flour]], [[syrup]], and other breakfast foods. The trademark dates to 1893, although Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. The phrase "Aunt Jemima" is sometimes used as a female version of [[Uncle Tom]] to refer to a black woman who is perceived as obsequiously servile or acting in, or protective of, the interests of whites.
The 1950s [[television show]] ''[[Beulah (show)|Beulah]]'' came under fire for depicting a mammy-like black maid and cook who was somewhat reminiscent of Aunt Jemima. Today, "Beulah" and "Aunt Jemima" are regarded as more or less interchangeable as [[term of disparagement|terms of disparagement]].
The direct inspiration for Aunt Jemima originates from a [[minstrelsy]]/[[vaudeville]] song of the same name. [[Chris L. Rutt]] of the [[Pearl Milling Company]] saw the song being sung by [[blackface]] performers [[Baker & Farrell]] wearing an [[apron]] and [[kerchief]], and appropriated the character.[http://www.prmuseum.com/kendrix/trinity.html]
Aunt Jemima is depicted as a plump, smiling, bright-eyed [[Black (people)|black]] woman, originally wearing a kerchief over her hair. She was represented as a [[History of slavery in the United States|slave]][http://advertising.tjs-labs.com/gallery-view?advertiser=AUNT+JEMIMA&op=AND&span=1000&sort=B] and was the most commonplace representation of the stereotypical "[[mammy archetype|mammy]]" character.
▲The woman whose likeness was painted for the logo was Anna Short Harrington. [[Nancy Green]], born a slave in [[Montgomery County, Kentucky]], was hired by [[R.T. Davis Milling Company]] to play the Jemima character from 1890 to her death in 1924. Green (as Jemima) operated a pancake-cooking display at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]] during 1893, beside the "world's largest flour barrel". [[Harriette Widmer]] also portrayed the character on radio. There is also speculation that Ohio woman [[Rosie Riles]] (b. 1901 - d. 1969) modelled for the first conception of the Aunt Jemima character.
Aunt Jemima was not the only depiction of a black person to be used in early advertising. Black caricatures were often featured prominently as trademarks of several products. Most commonly, such images were used to sell food, cleaning agents, agricultural produce, and products that were black or brown, such as coffee, ink, and chocolate. Examples include [[Cream of Wheat]], featuring a cook named "[[Rastus]]"; Fairbank's Gold Dust, a powdered laundry detergent, featuring "Goldie" and "Dusty", the "Gold Dust Twins"; J & P Coat's Threads, featuring "[[Topsy]]" and "Mammy" cookie jars. Objections to the depiction of Aunt Jemima and other black advertising date back to the 1920s. According to ''[[Slave in a Box]]'' by [[M.M. Manring]], one black professional polled in 1928 responded, "I positively hate this illustration."
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