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Huckleberry Finn

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Print Resources

Most print resources on Huckleberry Finn will be located in 813.4 and 818 .4

Print resources on Censorship will be located in 025.2, 302, 303, and 363.3

Some excellent books in our collection:

120 banned books : censorship histories of world literature.

Banned in the U.S.A. : a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries.

Censorship and selection : issues and answers for schools.

Literature suppressed on political grounds.

Literature suppressed on religious grounds.

Literature suppressed on sexual grounds.

Literature suppressed on social grounds.

What Johnny shouldn't read : textbook censorship in America.

Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog for books.

~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

~ Biographies, magazine, and newspaper articles

~ Reports on social and political issues

~ Magazine and newspaper articles

~ Reference articles, magazines, newspapers, images, and TV/radio transcripts

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~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources

~ Literary criticism, biographies, and book reviews

~ Newspaper articles from U.S. and international sources

~ Viewpoint, reference, magazine and newspaper articles on social and political issues.

~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources

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Internet Resources

Huck Finn Resources

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ from the Online Literary Criticism Collection, the Internet Public Library.

The Anti-Censorship Center ~ from NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English.

Censorship Links ~ from the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association.

Familiy Friendly Libraries ~ An organization "interested in changing the way that libraries and librarians look at the idea of intellectual freedom and censorship."

Finding Jim Behind the Mask: The Revelation of African American Humanity in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Leslie Gregory, Florida Gulf Coast University

The Index on Censorship ~ "One of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues."

National Coalition Against Censorship ~ Use their search engine to find articles on Huck Finn. The NCAC is "an alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups."

Office for Intellectual Freedom ~ An anti-censorship support division of the American Library Association.

Why Huck Finn Belongs in the Classroom ~ By Jocelyn Chadwick, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn.

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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center, Park Ridge, IL
Last update: 5/12/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org