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Jane Elliott (née Jennison; born November 30, 1933) is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Apr 5, 2024 · CNN — Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Elliott, like many people across the...
Jul 4, 2020 · The day after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott carried out the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise in her classroom. Now, people are returning to her work.
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.
The day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the schoolteacher Jane Elliott scrapped her lesson plan — teaching her third graders the Sioux prayer about not...
Jan 1, 2003 · Jane Elliott, the educator who created the blue-eye, brown-eye exercise, shares her experiences and insights on prejudice and discrimination in the U.S. and abroad. She discusses the impact of the exercise, the relevance of the issue, and the challenges of teaching and lecturing on diversity.
Jane Elliott, a teacher in Iowa, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. The documentary follows the impact of her lesson on the children and its relevance 30 years later.
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