The Help
On June 12, 1963, two months before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous ”I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., prominent Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was shot and killed by white racists outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help, we experience this murder through the eyes of Aibileen, one of many black maids working in the city – the “help” to whom the title refers.
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The complete movie "The Help" on Youtube (rent or buy)
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The Help: Kathryn Stockett's Controversial Hit
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Review of the novel (The New York Times)
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The Help - official trailer
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Review of the movie (The New Yorker)
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Medgar Evers (biography.com)
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NAACP History: Medgar Evers
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Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers' Funeral, June 1963 (TIME/Life)
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