Anna Short Harrington (1897 – 1955) was an American model. She was one of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as "Aunt Jemima".
Biography
Anna Short was born in 1897 in the Wallace area of Marlboro County, South Carolina.
The Short family lived on the Pegues Place plantation as sharecroppers.
She grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, where she had three daughters and two sons.
Her husband, Weldon Harrington, left the family after 10 years of marriage.
A year later, she was reunited with her five children in Syracuse, New York.
Harrington cooked for various fraternity houses at Syracuse University.
The house was demolished for urban renewal and construction of Interstate 81 in the 1960s. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice and without leave to amend on February 18, 2015.