"The help" movie: fun and reality

This great movie was seen by my class as an aditional content to what we have been learning from "To kill a mockingbird". This activity will talk you about some topics of the movie

1. In your own words, write what was meant by "separate but equal." How did people in Jackson, Mississippi - including the ladies of the Junior League in "The Help" - try to apply this principle?
It was an idea that reffered to the fact that coloured people are still people and deserve to be treated like that, but, because of the fact that they are coloured, they must be separated from white people. This is shown in the movie with the clear example aof the bathrooms: people builded special bathrooms only for black people, because they believed that black people carried dangerous infections and other kind of wrong thoughts.

2. Do a simple online research about Jim Crow Laws. Identify what outcomes - forced upon domestic workers - were present in "The Help".
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern United States. Northern segregation was generally de facto, with patterns of segregation in housing enforced by covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory union practices for decades. I thonk that a very graphic example of this showned in the movie was the special neighborhood for black people, were the housemaids of the movie lived.
Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated.

3. Explore the themes in "The Help" and develop your ideas by continuing the following sentence:
"The maids in The Help took a risk by telling their stories. Even though they knew they could be shot to death in their front yards, they went ahead with the project. If people are not willing to take risks..."

What the maids of this movie did is the correct thing to do. You must always do what you want, although it implies a risk. You must fight for what you want and step over the obstacles, just as this African-american maids did, in order to show the world what they were fighting for.