One of the issues focused on in the story would be issues of race and segregation in Jackson, Mississippi. In Jackson, like in many other places of the United States under the Jim Crow laws, it was very stern on segregation. The inequality the African-Americans faced during this time was immense. The rules and norms were stringent when it came to the interaction between the races. A booklet found, “Compilation of Jim Crow Laws of the South” was kept in the Mississippi History room. “The booklet was a list of laws stating what colored people can and cannot do,” (Stockett 321). An African-American maid, Aibileen, portrays Jackson as, “one white neighborhood after the next,” meaning it’s predominately white and on the “black” side of town, they’re
