"The Help" and the Struggle for African-American Equality



http://goo.gl/GK33h "The Help" movie poster


The movie, "The Help" is an American film adaptation of the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Focused around a white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, who is writing a book about the stories of African-American maids to show the racism and how they were treated by white people. The setting is in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights era (early 1960s)


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The significance of the movie, "The Help" in the struggle for African-American equality...

(what is your opinion on the book? did it help to establish more African-American equality?)