"The Help"

Did you guys know that the renowned book and movie "The Help" was written by a Phi Mu? No? Well it was, her name is Kathryn Stockett and she was apart of Phi Mu the Alpha Zeta Chapter at the University of Alabama. (UA) Kathryn was able to write this story using her own life as a guideline. Because her mother was absent most of the time she had an African-American maid that took care of her and raised her. Some of the main characters in her novel were other Phi Mu's from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss for short) from the Chi Omega chapter.

    "The Help" is a novel about a white southern college girl who wants to become a big time New York City journalist but in order to do that she writes a small article for her local newspaper. The only article that was available for her to write was for housekeeping and since she had to idea how to be a housekeeper she asked her best friends maid to help her out.  Skeeter who is the aspiring journalist becomes close friends with her "best friends" maid Aibileen, what started out as just a simple housekeeping article it turned into an article that a potential New York publisher wants to publish about Skeeter educating the world on what real life domestic servants have to go through on an every day basis. Towards the end of the novel Skeeter was able to get 12 maids to willingly tell her what awful things they have gone through and at the end the NYC publisher published Skeeters stories into a book and everyone was astounded by how close Skeeter got to the "help" and what awful things people in the south were making their housekeepers do.