now as mark strassman reports, a new sanitized version is coming out. >> there ain't no home like a raft>> reporter: like this movie about huckleberry finn, mark twain's classic book still navigates america's river of race relations. twain's classic used racial slurs, words customary for twain's time, but today radioactive. on one page of huck finn, twain wrote the "n" word six times. should each one be edited out and replaced with the word slave? allen gribben says yes. he's a twain scholar at auburn universities at montgomery and will publish a new edition of the classic without the "n" word. >> seems to me that i'm doing something constructive by eliminating a word that's a clear barrier for many people. >> reporter: in the entire book mark twain used the "n" word 219 times. deliberately. to spotlight 19th century racism. >> that word meant something, that word means something. >> reporter: at atlanta's morehouse university, david wall rice, says twain's slurs actually help americans face the issue of racism today. >> we have to have a discussion about it. we can't skate over it. >> r

mark strassman shows us how they did it. >> reporter: as a story, the civil rights movement had it allood versus evil, drama, social upheaval. but at first, america's major media ignored it, especially in the south. >> it was our responsibility to find a way to dramatize the issue. >> reporter: congressman john lewis says that the movement's leaders realized to bring change, they needed to reach white americans. how did you do that? >> as a movement, we literally put our bodies on the line. >> influence on the civil rights coverage. . >> reporter: dominika cibulkova cowrote the "race beat" a book about the media and movement. >> it's just that no one knew about it. >> reporter: bee nine 57, major northern newspapers discovered the drawm and the story. >> reporter: how do you feel about integrated passengers? >> reporter: the television networks followed. even major southern media paid attention to the open hatred. >> you've got to keep the whites and the blacks spraet sprait! >> reporter: and the violence response to peaceful protests. >> if you're going to beat us, beat us in the ligh

mark strassman reports. >> reporter: this is catfish country, central alabama.third generation farmer, townsend kaiser says he's become the small fish in trouble. >> i'm not afraid of competition on a level playing field. playing fields are different right now. >> reporter: kaiser's talking about foreign catfish, the kind debbie brown would never serve in her restaurant. >> they'd run me out of town. >> reporter: 2500 people live in greensboro, alabama. without local catfish farmers, they might as well take down its sign. >> if they don't do well -- >> put us out of business. it's going to really hurt the economy even more. >> reporter: the state produces one-third of america's catfish, 130 million pounds annually. but farmers like kaiser feel squeezed. his sales are down 10%, but his costs have spiked 60%. foreign catfish, mostly chinese and vietnamese, dominate america's market. with cheaper labor, imported cat fish sells for $1.25 a pound less than u.s. catfish. american farmers say unlike their fish, foreign catfish is suspect, full of antibiotics and other

mark strassman is in cairo with more on getting americans to safety. >> reporter: millions of egyptians clam mor for change but some people want no part of this revolt. an estimated 90,000 americans live and work in egypt and an unknown number of tourists. many at the airport trying to get out. >> i knew who mubarak was and he was in reign a long time, but didn't know there was such dissatisfaction. >> reporter: this city has teetered on chaos, burnings, lootings, shootings. the u.s. state department is urging americans to leave. >> state department personnel at our embassy in cairo and here in the united states are working round the clock to ensure the safety of our americans. >> reporter: starting today the u.s. government is chartering planes to take americans out of egypt to various european cities. there is a backlog. by u.s. law anyone has to reimburse washington for the cost of the ticket. many americans will gladly pay. their own safety and security a top priority, a dramatic change from one week ago. >> i looked at the news and saw tunisia, tunisia here, cairo here, no problem.