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Jane Elliott
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1933
Jane Elliott is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, Elliott became known for the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise she created to teach students about the effects of discrimination and racial stereotyping. She first conducted the exercise with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The local newspaper's publication of compositions that the children had written about the experience led to much broader media interest in it.
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About Jane Elliott
Birth
1933
First book
1968
Years writing
58
Jane Elliott is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, Elliott became known for the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise she created to teach students about the effects of discrimination and racial stereotyping. She first conducted the exercise with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The local newspaper's publication of compositions that the children had written about the experience led to much broader media interest in it.
Jane Elliott was born in 1933 in the town of Riceville, United States.
She is globally recognized for her influential experiment on discrimination based on eye color.
Her work as a human rights activist has been captured in audiovisual projects such as A Class Divided.
Beyond her teaching career, she has contributed to the publishing world as a screenwriter and author of children's literature.
Throughout her career, she has published over fifty works exploring topics ranging from fiction to civilization.
