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"The Help" moved me to tears!
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 458142" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Oh- one other thing- I remember my grandmother swearing by Crisco, too, and all the women in my family who are older than me say it's the ONLY thing to fry chicken in.</p><p></p><p>GN-yes, it most definitely was the "going thing" in many areas of this country to have a maid, or "hired help" during that era although not all families did this. I didn't grow up in the deeper south where the discrimination was worse and my grandmother's "help" used the same bathroom as anyone else in the family- whether they lived in the house or just came over for dinner or to visit. The black lady eventually left and the next "help" was a young white lady. After that one, there were no others. I think that's when the era was changing anyway. Just like some of the stories in the movie revealed, all white people who hired these ladies weren't treating them like koi or discriminating against them. But I have no doubt- and remember my grandparents talking about some things they were reading in the newspaper- that things were much worse re race and discrimination in the deep southern states.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 458142, member: 3699"] Oh- one other thing- I remember my grandmother swearing by Crisco, too, and all the women in my family who are older than me say it's the ONLY thing to fry chicken in. GN-yes, it most definitely was the "going thing" in many areas of this country to have a maid, or "hired help" during that era although not all families did this. I didn't grow up in the deeper south where the discrimination was worse and my grandmother's "help" used the same bathroom as anyone else in the family- whether they lived in the house or just came over for dinner or to visit. The black lady eventually left and the next "help" was a young white lady. After that one, there were no others. I think that's when the era was changing anyway. Just like some of the stories in the movie revealed, all white people who hired these ladies weren't treating them like koi or discriminating against them. But I have no doubt- and remember my grandparents talking about some things they were reading in the newspaper- that things were much worse re race and discrimination in the deep southern states. [/QUOTE]
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