Eugenia Skeeter Phelan, the daughter of a relatively well
off white farmer in Jackson, Mississippi has come home from school and is basically
looking for work of some kind and when she gets the job of providing a column in the
paper about housework and other related things, she turns to "the help," all the black
housemaids in the area for help.
She begins to chronicle
their stories and decides to start compiling it into something that she will try to sell
to a publisher. Along the way she helps to give these African American women a voice
and an opportunity to talk about their trials and their joys as well. It is a
heartwarming story, not without its share of heartbreaking tales as
well.
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