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Thread #100865   Message #2029557
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Apr-07 - 10:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'cleaning lady' as insult
Subject: RE: BS: 'cleaning lady' as insult
Nancy Green, the first Aunt Jemima.

Born a slave, found as a 'cleaning lady,' signed a contract, featured at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893.

Her successors described here:
Jemimas

Now who was the joker who gap-toothed Jemima?