My Mother and My Grandmother Were “The Help”

“Not bad for a white woman, trying to capture a black story.” That was my mother’s reaction after seeing “The Help“. She was a “mother’s helper”, another word for maid, in high school in the 60s. She got the job after her mother, who worked as a domestic worker in South Carolina, moved up to …

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