The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi and writes about the civil rights movement in the South.

The Help is about a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American maids that every family has working for them. She writes about the mistreatment, abuse and heartbreaks of working for white families during this time.