This memory jug by Jan Wade is an homage to African American artist Betye Saar (b.1926). It references Saar’s work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972, an assemblage that arms the well-known “mammy” caricature with a rifle and grenade, transforming her into a warrior against racial violence and derogatory stereotypes. Deeply rooted in the history of slavery in the United States, the mammy caricature represents a fictional Black female figure who is obese, asexual, maternal, and devoted to domestic servitude and love for her white “family.” In this artwork, Wade pays tribute to Saar not only as a fellow artist but also as a fellow child of the Great Migration—the movement of an estimated six million African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and West of the United States (and Canada) from 1916 to 1970, fostering the growth of new urban Black culture and reshaping the nation.