I don’t usually buy so-called Black Americana items because the images are so maddening. But I was drawn to a Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1959, menu for Mammy’s Shanty, once a popular southern restaurant in Atlanta. The city was…
Month: June 2014
“Aunt Jemima on the side of a pancake box.” Those were the words we teased each other with as children growing up in Georgia. We were all familiar with the round-faced black woman with the scarf on…