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Schools continue to grapple with 'Huckleberry Finn'
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 12/11/15 | Justine McDaniel

Posted on 12/11/2015 7:32:03 PM PST by markomalley

After The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885, the book was boycotted in some places in the United States for portraying friendship between a black man and a white boy.

"In its time, it was derided and censored," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, which tracks challenges to books.

Today, Mark Twain's classic - about a boy who flees his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave - is still sometimes challenged in American schools, but for nearly the opposite reason: its liberal use of the N-word and perceived racist portrayals of black characters.

This week, a Montgomery County school removed Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum after a group of students said the book made them uncomfortable.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.philly.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1885; 1stamendment; banned; blackkk; bookburnings; books; education; freespeech; huckfinn; huckleberryfinn; imherehuckleberry; marktwain; pc; pennsylvania; safeplace; samuelclemens; waronfreespeech
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got started on posting it chapter by chapter, will have to hunt up the file and continue the process.

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61 posted on 12/12/2015 12:52:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: ichabod1

Sure; Islam is as American as bean pies and kebab!

Actually, it played an important role in one of our first exercises in projecting force overseas (with the Barbary pirates at “the shores of Tripoli”).


62 posted on 12/12/2015 4:07:24 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: jch10
Some of us know it is a story.....a made up account intending to entertain. Some are not that smart.

And anti-slavery in tone...

63 posted on 12/12/2015 5:00:41 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: markomalley

I graduated from a Bishop England High School, Charleston, SC, in 1970. I can recall that all of the books of that time that other schools were banning, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc., were in our school library. Along with copies of the Kuran.


64 posted on 12/12/2015 5:52:55 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: uncitizen

> What would that appraise for? curious
We’ve already turned down $1200, because it seemed low.


65 posted on 12/12/2015 6:33:38 AM PST by BuffaloJack (ISLAM is the ENEMY.)
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To: BuffaloJack

***It is a First Edition copy of “Huckleberry Finn”.***

For some reason a scene with a flame thrower from the movie FAHRENHEIT 451 popped into mind.


66 posted on 12/12/2015 6:44:28 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: eyedigress

When I read it political correctness was not in the vocabulary. The morale was do the right thing. Some made it a slavery thing. It wasn’t to me.


67 posted on 12/12/2015 7:13:06 AM PST by jch10 (Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
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To: nickcarraway
It doesn't matter, its the serious of the fact, charge all rap singers with murder. Gee don't I sound like a fascist liberal?
68 posted on 12/12/2015 8:11:46 AM PST by Kozy
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To: MUDDOG

When Huck tries to say “Can you speak French?” in French to Jim, it is so mangled that they had put the correct French in brackets after Huck’s version.


69 posted on 12/12/2015 11:30:51 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: markomalley
If Twain were alive....I don't think the people criticizing his *Finn* would like what he would say. It would be colorful. **&*$@!!!**


70 posted on 12/12/2015 11:35:39 AM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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