The movie The Help is a 2011 period drama set in the 1960’s Mississippi, about a white female writer who secretly collaborates with two black maids to write a book about their experiences as domestic workers for white families. The film highlights the racism and hardships faced by African Americans at the time, as the three women risk getting caught and backlash to tell the maids’ stories.
The film The Help was created to show friendship, courage, the impact of social injustice and to expose racial discrimination and inequality faced by African American maids in 1960’s Mississippi. The film’s primary purpose was to show the everyday racial discrimination and injustice faced by Black domestic workers during the Civil Rights era, which was often not discussed in the media at the time.
