Whites & Blacks in the 1930s The three ladies interviewed in "Growing Up White" had colored friends that they became really attached to. They were never racist or cruel to them like some of the whites in "Growing up Black". The ladies in "Growing up White" had a worry free childhood and there world was easy. They had a cook, yardman, nurse, and a maid, that's just if you were “poor whites.” Mrs. Barge from "Growing up Black" was sheltered and limited to things she could do and later in her life felt the harsh judgment from whites her parents experienced. The ladies in "Growing Up White" say that a good family was if your father was employed, if your mother stayed at home with a maid or two, you weren't necessarily wealthy, and you were definitely a good church member. Mrs. Barge's idea of a good family would probably go something like this; father and mother were both employed, your family was still together, and you had somewhere to lay your head. Mrs. Barges family was a whole lot different from the other ladies because they were living in a housing complex rarely seeing someone from the other race. The women from "Growing up White in the 1930s" had colored people as their nurse and best friends. The ladies would not consider Mrs. Barges family a good family because they had no staff to help and her father was laid off for only some periods of time, his job was unstable. Occupations available for black women during the 1930's were things like: being a slave working in the kitchen or outside, ironing, doing other people laundry, and doctors that take care of blacks only. Mrs. Barge didn't really see racism til she became a lady because that is when she really started seeing white people. The occupations made it seem that blacks were less of a person to the white children and population even though the land was as rightfully theirs as it was the whites. The nurse Calpurnia, from To Kill a Mockingbird, feels as though she is accepted, not because of her color but because of her personality. She respects the Finches and treats the kids as her own even though they may not look alike. She doesn't pay attention to the small things and make a big deal about it.