At age 89 Jane Elliott has lost none of her feistiness, and she admits to having no patience with people who are willfully ignorant. While no longer a teacher, Elliott said she is a lifelong educator, ...

Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the... We Are Repeating The Discrimination Experiment ...

(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 US, was ...

Writings by Jane Elliott have also been banned in several states. Jane Elliott, an anti-racism activist best known for her April 5, 1968, blue eyes, brown eyes experiment demonstrating that prejudice ...

BRANFORD — Internationally-known anti-racism educator Jane Elliott, best known for her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” classroom exercise in the wake of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...