"It was so good that the boys would now tell everyone ... the milling company heard about it ... they came and sought her out," Hayes said.
And just like that Aunt Jemima was born. It made its debut at the World’s fair in Chicago in 1893.
As legend tells it, Green sold 50,000 boxes of the now famous pancake mix.
"She was the trusted face. Back then, you know, anybody who would look at an African American woman cooking, they knew that they can trust her cooking, that she could cook,” Hayes said.
But for all those years, ads by Quaker Oats for Aunt Jemima never mentioned Green.
Green lived until the age of 89 but died after being hit by a car in Chicago in 1923.
After her death, female ambassadors hired by Quaker Oats continued the legacy.
Lilian Richard was one of them.
Richard put her small Texas community on the map and as a result, Hawkins, Texas, is considered the pancake capital of the state
