The Help, Black Domestics in The 1960s | Socyberty

The Help, Black Domestics in The 1960s | Socyberty

Kathryn Stockett’s book, "The Help" is a best seller and a movie was recently made from it. Some blacks would have liked such a book to have been written by a black person but blacks and whites say they like the book and the movie. It’s the story of black domestics in the 1960s and their white employers. Stockett, herself was raised by a black nanny during that time in Mississippi. The 1960s were the times of upheaval and civil right marches. Martin Luther King was in the forefront, and blacks and whites were marching in the streets for civil liberties.

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