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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 458061" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>When I was growing up in St. Louis, nobody had a maid! Couldn't even imagine having a maid ... it just wasn't done, except for maybe a few wealthy people and wealthy people were pretty scarce in my neighborhood. Then we moved to Florida and lived there during the time period that the book covers, during the majority of the civil rights movement. I didn't know anybody that had a maid there either. It may have been done other places but not where I lived. We lived in a small outlying town that had been the scene of terrible racial unrest back in the 1920, there were riots, lynchings and murders and a lot of people there had been there to witness it all. Even if they wanted a maid, even if they had been able to afford to have a maid, they would have never been able to find someone willing to work in that town! </p><p></p><p>The closest we ever got to having a "maid" was when my mother went back to work for a while and tried to find someone to do the ironing. That was back before 'permanent press' when <em>everything</em> had to be ironed, including my fathers Air Force uniforms. Didn't last long though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 458061, member: 1883"] When I was growing up in St. Louis, nobody had a maid! Couldn't even imagine having a maid ... it just wasn't done, except for maybe a few wealthy people and wealthy people were pretty scarce in my neighborhood. Then we moved to Florida and lived there during the time period that the book covers, during the majority of the civil rights movement. I didn't know anybody that had a maid there either. It may have been done other places but not where I lived. We lived in a small outlying town that had been the scene of terrible racial unrest back in the 1920, there were riots, lynchings and murders and a lot of people there had been there to witness it all. Even if they wanted a maid, even if they had been able to afford to have a maid, they would have never been able to find someone willing to work in that town! The closest we ever got to having a "maid" was when my mother went back to work for a while and tried to find someone to do the ironing. That was back before 'permanent press' when [I]everything[/I] had to be ironed, including my fathers Air Force uniforms. Didn't last long though. [/QUOTE]
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