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Racial Segregation
In the novel, it is mentioned about a booklet containing Compilation of Jim Crow
Laws of the South, below is the quotation of what the booklet says:
No person shall require any white female nurse in wards or rooms in which Negro
men are placed.
It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person.
Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.
No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white woman or girls.
The officer in charge shall to burry anyone colored person upon ground used for the
burial white person.
Book shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall
continue to be used by the race first using them.
The board shall maintain a separate building on separate grounds for the
instruction of all blind persons of the colored race. (Stockett, 2009:177)
The novel also explains that the Blacks and Whites are not allowed to share water
fountains, movie house, public restrooms, ball parks, phone booth, circus shows,
pharmacy, post office, etc. (Stockett, 2009:176)
This racial segregation is something that the main characters in the novel want to
erase.
a book about the experiences of black maids in working for the white family. Her
big sympathy towards the blacks encourage her to invite Aibileen, Minny, and the