SAN BERNARDINO >> Third grade teacher Jane Elliott was badly shaken by the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968. “I thought he could change things,” Elliott ...

On the morning of April 5, 1968, Jane Elliott was teaching third grade in the small Iowa town of Riceville. It was the day after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. After ...

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, ...

RICEVILLE — This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. It’s also the 50th anniversary of Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes experiment. The ...

(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 ...

This Iowa teacher became famous for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that had children experience prejudice on a personal level. Jane Elliott was a 3rd grade teacher working in Riceville in 1968 when ...

Jane Elliott, internationally known for her Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiment that shows the effects of racism, visited the Kansas City area this week. JaneElliott.com Renown anti-racism activist Jane ...

Since 1968, Jane Elliott, an internationally known teacher, has been teaching people about racism, but her lessons don't go down easily. Her methods are confrontational, brutal, and difficult to take.

In 1968, an elementary school teacher named Jane Elliott decided to find a way to teach her students about the power of racism and prejudice. Elliott was white, as was every student in her Riceville, ...

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 ...