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May 27, 1933 Riceville, Iowa, United States 90 years old
American schoolteacher known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise
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About Jane Elliott
- Jane Elliott (née Jennison; born May 27, 1933) is an American former third-grade schoolteacher, anti-racism activist, and educator.
- She is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr.
- was assassinated.
- When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had written about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination.
- Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders to become The Eye of the Storm.
- This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in A Class Divided.
- After leaving her school, Elliott became a diversity educator full-time.
- She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S.
- and in several locations overseas.
