Black education has been a struggle since the early 1900s, with the segregation of race, white dominating, the African Americans have been less than fortunate with the education. To begin with in this book, education is not a priority for white women after high school, it is also not a main priority for the white men, but for the black men and women you were even lucky to finish high school. In the book education is valued by the blacks as they have very little education. The white society see the ‘Help’ as unintelligent and stupid. “Sit down on your behind, Minny, because I’m about to tell you the rules for working in a white Lady’s house.’ I was fourteen years old, to the day. . . I was about to quit school and start my first real job. Moma
