Born into slavery in 1834, Nancy Green became the advertising - TopicsExpress



          

Born into slavery in 1834, Nancy Green became the advertising world’s first living trademark as Aunt Jemima. While working as a domestic in Chicago, Green was contracted in 1893 at age 59 to portray a happy cook to promote a pancake recipe by Pearl Milling Co and Aunt Jemima was born. Green signed a lifetime contract that allowed her likeness to be used for packaging and billboards. Green died in 1923, but her image as the pancake queen lives on today. Some view the icon as a painful reminder of slavery, and her character as the apron-clad cook with a bandanna tied on her head as a negative stereotype of black women...
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:48:25 +0000

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