Aunt jemima history character

Under the grass it is barely noticeable: an unmarked grave covering one of America’s "Hidden Figures" for nearly a century.

You probably have never heard her name, but Nancy Green has likely been in your kitchen before.

Green created the Aunt Jemima recipe, and with it, the birth of the American pancake.

"Her face on the box, that image on the box, was probably the one way that households were integrated," Sherry Williams, president of the Bronzeville Historical Society in Chicago, told ABC News.

Long before she pioneered that famous mix, Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky.

After the Civil War, she moved to a deeply divided Chicago, becoming a strong voice at Olivet Baptist Church, the city’s oldest black congregation.

"This church was noted for its work to shield those who had escaped slavery, who arrived here in Chicago because there