“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea.” this quote from the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett illustrates just one of the very many examples of how the white people treated the black people during the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil rights movement takes place during the 1950s and 1960s, but it still takes place in today’s society. The Help is a novel written by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson Mississippi 1960s. It sets its focuses on the black maids working in the white southern homes. It’s about a girl named Stockett who writes in detail, a book about how the maids were treated. The Help is shaped by the struggles of the Civil Rights movement. The end of the Civil War in 1865 abolished slavery in the United States.
However, the southern states introduced a number of laws that kept black people in inferior positions like black people and white people were not allowed to use the same libraries, bathroom, water fountains, schools, theaters, train cars, or other public facilities. This separation was referred to as segregation. In this book it talks heavily about these kind of things that happen with the maids. In my opinion the civil rights movement was well needed. Black lives do matter and America needed to take that into recognition. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s. With the white people treating the black people like they weren’t of the same equality. Since the 1960s, many laws have been passed to guarantee civil rights to all Americans, But the struggle continues today.
A big number of black people can afford better housing, but are kept out by racism. It’s against the law to deny someone housing because of his or her race, although fair-housing laws are broken all the time. Real estate agents ‘forget’ to show African American houses in white neighborhoods. Landlords with several applicants for an apartment ‘just happen’ to choose a white applicant instead of a black one. That’s just one of many examples that racism is still around today. The civil rights movement took place in the 1950s to the 1960s. With the motivational speeches, nonviolent protests, and inspirations the protest ultimately led to a successful campaign earning African Americans the right to take part in politics and be less discriminated and mistreated.
