Jane Elliott was born on May 27, 1933 in Riceville, Iowa. She was an American third-grade schoolteacher who made an everlasting impact in anti-racism and civil rights. How could a third grade schoolteacher make an everlasting impact in something that has haunted the United States and people of color for ages? Well, she wasn’t only a third-grade schoolteacher. She was an activist, an educator, and a visionary. After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., she felt an obligation and purpose to teach people
Jane Elliott was born May 27th, 1933 and is almost 82 years old. She was the fourth of five children and grew up in Riceville, Iowa on a farm. Eventually, she taught in the same small town of 840 people as an elementary 3rd grade teacher. What sets her apart though, and makes her an influential educator, is her exercise she conducted with her 3rd graders the day after Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed. The “Blue Eyed/Brown Eyed Experiment” or as Jane Elliott called it “Discrimination Day”