HOLY SHIT! This is my school and graduating class! They never let me know they were banning this How they gonna ban ol Huck Finn "Removed from classrooms in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey schools (1997) after concerns were raised about its racial epithets and the depiction of its African-American characters. In December 1997, however, the school board approved a new curriculum which places the book in the context of nineteenth-century racial relations and presents the works of African-American writers, including Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, and Langston Hughes.