My mother was "The Help." She lived it. She helped raise the children of a white family in the 50's. Those children, now adults, still remember her and even helped her get a place to live. They still keep in contact to this day.
i was mad that the author stole her maid's story nd didn't want to pay her. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/hearing-scheduled-in-the-_n_923534.html
My relatives on both on my mother's and father's side worked as domestics. I'm glad The Help was made into a movie because I did not know that for example some of the Black help can't go to the bathroom in their employer's house.