Freedom Struggle In The Help By Katherine Stockett

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall” (“Quote by Nelson Mandela”). Katherine Stockett’s novel, The Help, depicts the struggles of African-American maids living in the South in the 1960s through their experiences whilst working in prejudice white households. Skeeter, a young white woman, moves back to Jackson, Mississippi after getting her degree at Ole Miss. Skeeter wants to be a writer instead of a housewife like the rest of the women in her town. To help jumpstart her career, Skeeter decides to write a novel about the experiences of African-American maids in her hometown. She starts by interviewing two maids, Aibileen and Minnie, that worked for her childhood friends. Although they were skeptical of
and the Global Freedom Struggle"). The nonviolent tactics used during the civil rights movement were strategically designed to spark a reaction from segregationists in the south in order to show Americans the intensity of racism and to spark the need for change. African-Americans had to have incredible resilience and strength to not fight back against white supremacists throughout their struggle for equality. The intense racism through crimes and police brutality that the American people became aware of during the Civil Rights Movement, had been apparent in the United States for more than 300 years before the sixties. The nonviolence of the Civil Rights Movement helped show the ignorance of citizens in the United States, most specifically the south and to stress the necessity for equality. Kathlyn Gay’s novel, Bigotry, discusses the difficulties that African Americans faced in their fight for equal justice. Gay describes the harsh realities of the Civil Rights Movement, “the struggle against racism and for the civil rights of people of color frequently meant putting one’s life on the line” (Gay 59). After several years of oppression, in the sixties, Blacks defied the racism and discrimination that was