Question: who did aibileen work for in the help
Answer: In 1963 , Aibileen Clark is an African - American maid in Jackson , Mississippi , and in intermittent voice overs she tells her `` career '' story to the aspiring writer Eugenia `` Skeeter '' Phelan , a recent graduate of Ole Miss and a friend of Aibileen 's employer and fellow socialite Elizabeth Leefolt .