"Eight local clergy published a letter referring to King and his fellow civil rights activists as outsiders, calling the protests unwise and untimely' and praising law enforcement, in particular, on the calm manner in which these demonstrations have been handled."" ... In the public statement the Clergymen stated that they were confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of their Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders. ...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. Traditions, values, speech patterns, and even favorite foods bind them together in a way that "outsiders"" may find hard to understand. Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds up...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Blanche DuBois is a genial, old-fashioned woman from the agricultural heart of the South who, upon a series of tragic events, is forced to live in the trying, unfamiliar depths of the new industrial South with her sister, Stella. The two have grown into entirely different people with entirely different lifestyles since Stella left the family plantation for a new life. Blanche must deal with Stella's brutal, primitive-like husband Stanley, who refuses to "have the wool pulled over his eyes" by Blanche's fantasies and pretensions of life. The clashing of their co-existences, coupled...

• Word Count: 2772
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School