Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known classroom experiments to combat racism remains a divisive subject more ...

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, ...

RICEVILLE | This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s also the 50th anniversary of Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes experiment.

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 ...

Writings by Jane Elliott have also been banned in several states. Jane Elliott, an anti-racism activist best known for her April 5, 1968, blue eyes, brown eyes experiment demonstrating that prejudice ...

It’s also the 50th anniversary of Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes experiment. The experiment took place the day after King’s assassination, at Riceville Community Schools, where Elliott was a ...

Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Elliott, like many people across the US, was shocked.