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53-year-old Aibileen, a black maid residing in Jackson Mississippi, takes care of white babies and does housework for white families to a make ends meet. Currently, she takes care of two-year-old Mae Mobley Leefolt
*Mae Mobley's mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Leefolt, dislikes her daughter and seems to have a distaste for Mae Mobley's affection for Aibileen
*Elizabeth invites her friends over to her house. Skeeter Phelan and Hilly Holbrook shows up as well Hilly's mother, Miss Walter. While serving refreshments, Aibileen overhears Hilly hinting that Miss Walter's maid by the name of Minny, who also happens to be Aibileen's best friend, is stealing from …show more content…
Skeeter senses that Hilly knows something about her work when she goes to pick it up
*It is discovered that civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been murdered by the KKK. His death causes an uproar in racial tension within the town
*Skeeter confronts Hilly into why she's been acting out of character with her. Hilly states that she saw the Jim Crow laws pamphlets and feels as though Skeeter wants to change the outdated laws
*Aibileen looks around for maids who might be interested in helping her and Skeeter although a lot of maids have declined
*Yule May, a maid who works for Hilly, starts asking Aibileen about her and Skeeter’s interviews and she starts becoming more interested, planning to contact Aibileen privately soon
*Minny makes the discovery that Celia is secretly drinking which causes Minny to become angry. She wants to confront Celia about her drinking, but chooses otherwise due to her mother’s number one

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