The Banned Books Week website says that a few short months after it was published, Huckleberry Finn was banned for the first time in a Concord, Massachusetts, library. The library called it, “trash and only suitable for the slums”. This is most likely because for the first time in American Literature the perspective of “uneducated” common folk was represented. Being released one hundred thirty-two years ago, Huckleberry Finn is still making the news by being banned in schools around the country for being “racially insensitive,” “oppressive,” and “perpetuating racism.”
The Banned Books Week website says that a few short months after it was published, Huckleberry Finn was banned for the first time in a Concord, Massachusetts, library. The library called it, “trash and only suitable for the slums”. This is most likely because for the first time in American Literature the perspective of “uneducated” common folk was represented. Being released one hundred thirty-two years ago, Huckleberry Finn is still making the news by being banned in schools around the country for being “racially insensitive,” “oppressive,” and “perpetuating racism.”