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Jane Elliott

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American schoolteacher known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise

United StatesWritersBorn 1933 · age 93
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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.

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The flowers of the forest are a’ wide awae.

The Flowers of the Forest. Note: This line appears in the “Flowers of the Forest,” part second, a later poem by Alison Cockburn. See Dyce’s

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2016BBC 100 Women

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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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Born 1933 · age 93
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