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Jane Elliott ( née Jennison; [ 2][ 3] 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 [ a] on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The publication of compositions ...
Jane Elliot (born January 17, 1947 [ 1]) is an American actress, best known for her role as Tracy Quartermaine in the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital . Career. Elliot appeared in a number of episodic prime time television series, such as The Mod Squad, Kojak, Barnaby Jones and Police Woman.
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.
Elliot starred as Carrie Todd in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (1952) from 1981 to 1982, herself citing the character created by legendary head writer Douglas Marland as the most demanding role of her career.
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...
Apr 6, 2023 · Fans were sad when Jane Elliot announced her retirement in 2017, but happy to find that it didn’t really stick, and the actress continued to return to GENERAL HOSPITAL as Tracy Quartermaine for frequent visits in the years that followed.
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.
Jan 1, 2003 · From the vantage point of more than thirty years since she first taught her eye-color exercise in discrimination to a third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa, Jane Elliott reflects on what she has...
Jan 18, 2019 · One of FRONTLINE's most requested programs -- third-grade teacher Jane Elliott's lesson in discrimination.
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a...