." >> bradley: no, it's not "huckleberry finn" anymore. talking about students-- what are we teaching them? this may be their first encounter with slavery. it shouldn't be their only one. but that's one of the reasons we can't mess around with it. there is a reality there that you cannot avoid. >> pitts: but do you... do you lose that reality when you take out the "n-word" and replace it with "slave"? >> bradley: yeah. "slave" is a condition. i mean, anybody can be a slave. and it's nothing for anybody to be ashamed of. but "nigger" has to do with... with shame. "nigger" has to do with calling somebody something. "nigger" was what made slavery possible. >> williams: it's... well, the word is poison. >> pitts: you use the word? >> williams: oh, i used to. i grew up saying the word. it was all i knew. i never gave it any thought. >> pitts: williams runs newsouth books in montgomery, alabama, cradle of the confederacy and where jim crow was once king. >> we don't want the niggers going in this school. it's a white school. >> pitts: williams,

we also see a book like huckleberry finn being banned because of the racial epithet. what's your take on that? oh, boy, what a mess we get into with all those. i have a final paper by one of my students in chico who loves this book nappy hair, telling how wonderful this book is and how could people love a book like huckleberry finn and teach that when there's a book like nappy hair to look at? and the very same sentences where he was saying he has the right to have this book, he's saying we shouldn't have the right for huckleberry finn. the "n" word can hurt so bad that there needs to be some-- a little bit of education before you get into it. and again, my wonderful father-- when i first read that book, he sort of sat me down and told me, you know, what the book was doing and all this sort of thing. and i admired the book so much that i actually went around-- when i was in high school and in college, i would dramatize the part of jim to try to get people to see what was-- what i felt was really going on. i'm very much--i mean, "hey," you know, "samuel clemens." let's

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and that bust was eventually photographed and put in the front piece of huckleberry finn. and any doctor will tell you if you want to get the neck right, you have to see the shoulders. he went to an art photographer -- means they photograph nudes -- and has this photo of himself taken so the sculptor can make that bust. now, i dare say mark twain thought it was funny, too, so he kept it, and it's probably the only unique photograph of him anywhere. this is an example of what we have, about 150 books. [laughter] i put it in because it requires no exla nation. here's another one. he's talking about someone who went out with him, he's describing the photograph. self-complacency of 40 years ago. this is the way god look when he's had a successful season. [laughter] now, this is an example of a notebook, basically, one of the very early notebooks. this one comes from be a notebook he kept when he was learning to be a pilot. this blue heading means from the new orleans delta to the head of island 62 and 63, and these are, basically, just notes of what that passage of the river,