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Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (born May 27, 1933, in Riceville, Iowa) is an American former third-grade schoolteacher, anti-racism activist and educator, as well as a feminist and LGBT activist. She is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise.
She first conducted her famous exercise for her class the day after Martin Luther King Jr was shot. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children wrote about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination. Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders to become ''Eye of the Storm''. This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in ''A Class Divided''. After leaving her school, Elliott became a diversity trainer full-time and has been on Oprah and Ellen and still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. and in several locations overseas.〔(An Unfinished Crusade ), PBS, December 19, 2002〕
==Eye color idea instead of moccasins for shoes==
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter with the microphone pointed it toward a local black leader and asked, "When ''our'' leader (HREF="http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/word/11/John F. Kennedy" TITLE="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy ) was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control ''your'' people?" Shocked that a reporter could feel that Kennedy was a "white people's leader", she then decided to combine a lesson she had planned about Native Americans with a lesson she had planned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for February's Hero of the Month project. At the moment she was watching the news of King's death, she was ironing a teepee for use in a lesson unit about Native Americans.〔Jane Elliott in ''Eye of the Storm''〕 To tie the two together, she used the Sioux prayer "Oh Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." She wanted to give her small-town, all-white students the experience of "walking in the moccasins" of someone of color.
The following day, she had a class discussion about the lesson and racism in general. She later said: "I could see that they weren't internalizing a thing. They were doing what white people do. When white people sit down to discuss racism what they are experiencing is shared ignorance." Most of Elliott's eight-year-old students were, like her, born and raised in the small town of Riceville, Iowa and were not normally exposed to black people. She felt that simply talking about racism would not allow her all-white class to fully comprehend racism's meaning and effects.〔
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