The Help blog post 1

The Help is a good and interesting book to read taking place in Jakson, Mississippi in 1962. But is the book correct on the characters and surroundings that are pointed out in the book?

Home placement is accurate if not segregated by law it was segregated by the banks and home owners with red tape. Literally splitting up property on maps with red tape and banks can approve or deny any loan to separate the people how they please. Even in the book it talks about the neighborhoods segregated by race so that is absolutely correct. Also called Housing Segregation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/housing-segregation-is-holding-back-the-promise-of-brown-v-board-of-education/

We also have a Little read about Skeeter's dress wear for her date with Stuart. The dress is described as thin black crepe dress (the beginning of ch 9) What does it look like I don't know but the internet does. It looks appropriate for the 60's. So no errors found here

http://www.retrowaste.com/1960s/fashion-in-the-1960s/

The small bus scene on page 15 describes it as a bus both white and black people can sit on and share the ride. However people were still rioting in the south and odds are Mississippi would be very angry about sharing a bus where both races could sit anywhere they wanted on a bus. I doubt that the number six bus would tolerate that kind of seating. But that is only a possibility. Who knows the white people could be boycotting or driving their own cars around. 

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&idigest=fb720fd31d9036c1ed2d1f3a0500fcc2&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GIC&docId=CX2831400031&source=gale&userGroupName=itsbtrial&version=1.0