Jane Elliott

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Jane Elliott

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Nov 30, 1933 (91 years old)

Jane Elliott

Known For

The Event: How Racist Are You?
0h 48m
Movie 2009

The Event: How Racist Are You?

Are we more racist than we realise? Former teacher Jane...

Eye Opener
0h 50m
Movie 2004

Eye Opener

Jane Elliott, an internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her Blue-eyed,...

The Angry Eye
0h 52m
Movie 2001

The Angry Eye

This documentary shows Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment set in a...

Blue Eyed
1h 30m
Movie 1996

Blue Eyed

In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott...

Biography

American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, Jane Elliott became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The classroom exercise was filmed in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm. PBS series Frontline featured a reunion of the 1970 class, as well as Elliott's work with adults, in its 1985 episode "A Class Divided".