2. Biography
Samuel Langhorne
Clemens
Born Nov. 30, 1835, the
small town of
Florida, Mo
Passed away on April
21, 1910
3. Works
The Innocents Abroad– Non-Fiction Travel (1869)
Roughing It— Non-Fiction (1872)
The Gilded Age— Fiction (1873)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—Fiction (1876)
The Adventures Huckleberry Finn— Fiction (1884)
The Diaries of Adam and Eve– Fiction (Adam 1893/
Eve 1905 in Harper Magizine)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc—Fiction (1896)
Considered to be the best book
4. Huckleberry Finn
"Huckleberry Finn" was ranked as the fifth most
frequently challenged book in the United States by
the American Library Association.
Town is based on his own home town
Themes
Racism
Slavery
Moral Education
5. Period of Time
Types of Mankind
Jim Crow Laws (1863-
1954)
Civil Rights Act
(1875)
Unconstitutional
Tuskegee Institute
6. Guilt
Didn’t know slavery was wrong
Saw an Indian slave murdered
Helped Warner T. McGuinn into Law
School who taught Thurgood Marshall
7. Work Cite
Moore, Martha T. . "'Huck Finn' navigating choppy
waters."USA Today 6 1 2011, n. pag. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.
"Lincolns Letter to Horace Greely." Columbia University.
Columbia University, n.d. Web. 10 Sep 2012.
"Official Website of Mark Twain." . N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Sep 2012.
Camfield, Gregg. "Race." Mark Twain's Mississippi. N.p., 2005.
Web. 10 Sep 2012.
"General Remarks on Types of Mankind." American
Egyptomania. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Sep 2012.
. "Mark Twain's Most Famous Books." The Mark Twain House
and Museum. The Mark Twain House and Museum, n.d. Web. 7
Oct 2012.
Editor's Notes
[Types of Mankind] It is also one of the most racist texts ever written, a classic of American racism as much as American science, and is today considered the highwater mark of American scientific racism.Tuskegee Institute: In 1881, Booker T. Washington, then a young teacher, arrived in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama, where he had been invited by local whites to start a school for blacks.Civil Rights act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was unconstitutional