This economic competition then causes the racial segregation toward the black who are in fact economically in the lower position then the white. It is shown clearly that the people say
that white and black people are different. So, in the other word, this case shows that there is segregation in getting education for the black in Katryn Stockett’ The Help.
The impact of segregation in school also affect to library. Separate and unequal access to knowledge is the antithesis of library ideals. During the civil rights movement libraries were
a popular target for protests because libraries were symbols of democracy and opportunity for all. Under segregation black people were generally denied access to public libraries in the
Southern United States.
“Go down to the State Street Library. They have a whole room full of Southern writers. Faulkner, Eudora Welty—”
Aibileen gives me a dry cough. “You know colored folks ain’t allowed in that library.”
I sit there a second, feeling stupid. “I can’t believe I forgot that.” The colored library must be pretty bad. There was a sit-in at the white library a few years ago
and it made the papers. When the colored crowd showed up for the sit-in trial, the police department simply stepped back and turned the German shepherds loose. I
look at Aibileen and am reminded, once again, the risk she’s taking talking to me. “I’ll be glad to pick the books up for you,” I say.
Aibileen hurries to the bedroom and comes back with a list. “I better mark the ones I want first. I been on the waiting list for To Kill a Mockingbird at the Carver
Library near bout three months now. Less see . . .” Stockett, 2009: 154
Aibileen is a smart person wants to enlarge her knowlegde but she cannot borrow the book from the white library because she is black. The impact of segregation can be seen in
the library as one of public service that made separate between black and white.
4.2.3 The Impact of Segregation in Hospital
The impact of segregation in hospital can be seen in the novel The Help. When Aibileen works in another white lady house, a white boy get accident. Then she decides to bring him to
black hospital, but the doctor refuses him because he is a white.
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“. . . so I go on and get the chiffarobe straightened out and before I know it, that little white boy done cut his fingers clean off in that window fan I asked her to take out
ten times. I never seen that much red come out a person and I grab the boy, I grab them four fingers. Tote him to the colored hospital cause I didn’t know where the
white one was. But when I got there, a colored man stop me and say, Is this boy white?” The typewriter keys are clacking like hail on a roof. Aibileen is reading
faster and I am ignoring my mistakes, stopping her only to put in another page. Every eight seconds, I fling the carriage aside.
“And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Is them his white fingers? And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well, you better tell em he your high yellow cause that colored doctor
won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. And then a white policeman grab me and he say, Now you look a here—”
Stockett, 2009: 151
This is show that the black people have seperate hospital from the white. The white can
not enter black hospital, if they do, the black people will deny them, because when black doctor helps them, it could result in violence. Racial hostility and segregation was the reason
that most African- American doctors had to practice medicine in poor communities. Segregation does not only indirectly affect healthcare of African Americans, but segregation
is directly seen within the actual field of medicine in patient care and interaction.
4.2.4 The impact of segregation in Public Transportation
Not only in hospital, the impact of segregation also happened on bus as was common elsewhere in the South with specific areas on a bus reserved for white passengers and other
seats for black passengers.
Bus come after while. Ain’t but four people on there, two colored, two white, all mens. I don’t know any of em. I take a window seat behind a thin colored fella. He
got on a brown suit and a brown hat, be about my age. “What happen up there?” colored man in front a me call to the driver.
Driver don’t answer. He keep backing up. The flashing lights is getting smaller, the dog barking fading off. Driver turn the bus around on Farish Street. At the next
corner, he stop. “Colored people off, last stop for you,” he holler in the rearview. “White people lemme know where y’all need to get to. I’ll get you close as I can.”
Stockett, 2009: 193
Aibileen and her black friends get segregation when there is a riot on the street. There are four passengers, two black men and two black white on the bus. Suddenly, the bus stops
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in the middle street and the driver asks black people to go out from the bus because he just want to take white passangers. This quotation shows the segregation on the bus. The white
driver keeps the white passenger and leave behind the black people. In 1960, the rule on the buses in Mississippi was that ‘coloured’ passengers must sit at
the back and leave the front seats to white passengers.There is an unfair segregation law which segregated bus passengers by race and asked black passengers to move when there
were no white-only seats left. At that time, many of the black people were ousted by the bus driver and forced to walk a long way back to home when the bus was full.
4.3 Discrimination
