Sketchbook page for Maid-Rite— I’se in Town Honey

Saar’s sketches are a repository of sources and ideas for her completed works. Here, she wrote, “A.J. [Aunt Jemima] white invention.” She also attributed the words inscribed on the bottom of the washboard
to Henry Dumas (1934–1968), an African
American writer and activist who was
killed at age thirty-three by a New York
City transit police officer.