Jane Elliott(I)

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Jane Elliott 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.. The classroom exercise was filmed in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm (1970). PBS series Frontline featured a reunion of the 1970 class, as well as Elliott's work with adults, in its 1985 episode A Class Divided (1985).

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Blue Eyed

8.2

Writer

1996

The Human Zoo

7.6

TV Mini Series

Self - Racism Scholar

Jane Elliott Against the World

8.5

Self

2026

The Angry Eye

7.4

Self

2001

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Let's Talk with Andrew Love
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- Guest
- 2022

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Born
- November 30, 1933
- Riceville, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
Spouse
- Darald Dean ElliottFebruary 6, 1955 - September 24, 2013 (his death, 4 children)
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Jane Elliott gained attention in 1968 through the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise. In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., she taught her elementary class about racism in an exercise in which students were labeled as inferior or superior based solely on their eye color. The results were so infamously spectacular that she continued to conduct the same exercise, or variations thereof, for the next several decades.