CHICAGO (WLS) The Quaker Oats Company have given Aunt Jemima a new name and new look, but the families of some of the women who portrayed her over the years feel they are being erased. It s a gross miscarriage of justice, said Dannez Hunter, great grandson of Anna Short Harrington. Let s put it in context of what it really actually is, a propaganda campaign.
The relatives are upset that the brand has been renamed Pearl Milling Company, discontinuing the Aunt Jemima brand. Hunter, who said both his great grandmother and his grandmother portrayed the fictional character for the company, said the move not only cheats his family out of earnings both women are due, but also erases them from history. He s pursuing litigation.