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 shocked.

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 ...

Professor Jane Elliott has been addressing the issue of race and racism for decades. For many Caucasians especially, her class and lectures are difficult to hear, but they have thrust her onto an ...

You’ve got to be carefully taught." Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan wrote the musical "South Pacific" (Broadway premiere1949), and it may be that activist and educator Jane ...

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, ...

You can watch the program here on this web site and you can also purchase a videotape through ShopPBS for Teachers. Have other films been made about Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed lesson in ...

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, ...