Should "To Kill a Mockingbird" be banned from schools?

Discrimination. An act or instance of discriminating or of making a distinction. Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, was written during a time in which this was acceptable. The Racial Slurs written in the authors one and only novel were not meant to discriminate, but to inform. Without the Racial Slurs and Slang used in the text, the time and setting would not be as obvious. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is full of authentic words. Some of these ‘replacement’ words used in other books with similar situations use unfit terms as well. Many agree that taking away these words would change the lovely southern charm the book possesses and constantly displays. The book takes place in the 1930’s in Alabama. The 1930’s was a time of great American Depression due to the stock market crash in 1929. This time and setting was also before the civil rights movement began to bloom. Due to Jim Crow Laws that were very common in the South after the Civil War, Discrimination was not viewed as a negative thing. Although it is unfortunate and is not the case today, given the context and timing of the book it would be more incorrect and untrue if the publishing company were to remove the slang and racial slurs from the original version. In the book ‘Huckleberry Finn’ the publishing company decided that the racial slurs and terms that are now seen as racist and un-politically correct, should be removed so that the school boards could permit students to read them. In these books they removed racial slurs such as ‘negro’ and changed them into ‘slave’. This should not be done to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, because the term ‘Slave’ used in addressing an African American, would be just as if you were to call someone who is Caucasian a ‘Slave owner’. These African Americans could or could not be descendants of slaves, and these Caucasians could or could not have slave owner lineage. Therefore, substitute words that are common in replacing racial slurs are just as un-politically correct