(Undated) — Descendants of a woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima [[ jeh-MYE-ma ]] on packaging and advertising are suing Quaker Oats for two-billion dollars. Two great-grandsons of Anna Short Harrington claim that she and former slave Nancy Green were instrumental in creating the recipe for the nation’s first self-rising pancake mix. The lawsuit argues that descendants of Harrington, Green, and other black women who appeared as Aunt Jemima, are entitled to two-billion dollars and a percentage of future sales of the popular mix. Quaker Oats officials say Aunt Jemima was never real and that there were no contracts between Nancy Green and the company that created the brand in the 1890s, or between Anna Harrington and Quaker Oats, which acquired the brand in the 1920s.
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