Families of Aunt Jemima Models Want More Than Just a Brand Change Aunt Jemima Families of Models . Want More Than Just a Brand Change
Aunt Jemima s name and face are now scrubbed from the breakfast products she s fronted for more than a century a move in the right direction, but far from enough to do justice to the women who served as her model . so say their descendants.
Lillian Richard and
Anna Short Harrington both served as models for Aunt Jemima at different points in the early 20th century, well before the most recent version with the woman in pearls.