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Nov 30, 1933 (91 years old)
Jane Elliott
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50min
Movie
2004
Eye Opener
Jane Elliott, an internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her Blue-eyed,...
52min
Movie
2001
The Angry Eye
This documentary shows Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment set in a...
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".