In the early sixties, if a black man used a white bathroom, he could expect white men to burn down his house, beat him, or even lynch him. However, the majority of white Southerners opposed these changes, with some people even resorting to violence to maintain segregation. Civil rights protestors sought to dissolve “the color line,” a metaphor for segregation, by integrating the facilities and institutions that were kept separate. White and black people had separate hospitals, bathrooms, schools, and even graveyards.
Set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early days of the 1960s civil rights movement, The Help portrays social life under the Jim Crow-era laws that enforced racial segregation.
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