In a recent survey of attempts to ban books in the United States, the American Library Association ranked Huckleberry Finn the fifth most frequently challenged book of the 1990s. In recent years, there has been increasing debate of the apparently racist ideas expressed by Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censorship campaigns has …showed first 75 words of 830 total…

…showed last 75 words of 830 total…more copies. Twain's view of censorship can be compared to modern day censorship. Most of the time putting a warning on a CD or a movie will just increase sales immensely. Huckleberry Finn has been one of the most contested works in American literature, and has caused controversy from the time it was published up until present time. Yet it is still considered my many as one of the most significant works in American literature.