The story is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s.

Willa Pearl Curtis - Junella, the Blake family's African-American maid.

Grace is the Wengler's African-American maid.

Seeking to improve herself, Ivy Moore, an African-American maid, announces her decision to leave her job working for the Austin family and go to secretarial school.

They have an African-American maid, Rosaleen, who acts as a surrogate mother for Lily.

The first voice to come to her was that of Demetrie, the African-American maid who worked for Ms. Stockett's grandmother in Jackson in the 1970s and '80s.

The African-American maid and cook to the Sycamore family.

She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s.

Even working-class white families had African-American maids.

I'm the one who had your babies, I", in reference to African-American maids raising white children for little pay.