Tate Taylor's film adapts Kathryn Stockett's novel about a young white writer in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, who records the stories of the Black maids who work for white families.
Book· 2009· Historical
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- Civil Rights Movement
Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 and 1963, the novel places the Black domestic workers' stories against the civil rights movement, including the murder of Medgar Evers in the same city.