In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like. Iowan Jane ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jane Elliott, who adapted the "Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed" discrimination experiment for her classroom, presented the Multicultural Student Leadership Scholars Convocation addressing "The Anatomy of ...