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Five stars.
A glimpse of the life of privileged young white women in the Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960's when segregation was a fact of life and an educated black woman could still be just a maid and a caregiver. A unique three-person account to help us understand the ordinary and the overlooked, the condescending manners of one side and the forced acceptance of a life without freedom of expression on the other -- when we might take if for granted as an American right. And the women who woke up to the possibility of making a difference, at a terrible risk to their own safety. With the background of the Freedom Marches and Mr Evers assassination to remind us of this time in history. The success of the story is it's ability to draw us effortlessly into the lives of these women, although set 45 years ago, allowing us an appreciation of gems of timeless wisdom and a discomfort with a prejudice that was never quite resolved.
A glimpse of the life of privileged young white women in the Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960's when segregation was a fact of life and an educated black woman could still be just a maid and a caregiver. A unique three-person account to help us understand the ordinary and the overlooked, the condescending manners of one side and the forced acceptance of a life without freedom of expression on the other -- when we might take if for granted as an American right. And the women who woke up to the possibility of making a difference, at a terrible risk to their own safety. With the background of the Freedom Marches and Mr Evers assassination to remind us of this time in history. The success of the story is it's ability to draw us effortlessly into the lives of these women, although set 45 years ago, allowing us an appreciation of gems of timeless wisdom and a discomfort with a prejudice that was never quite resolved.
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