17. “Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes" Exercise Creator / Educator, Jane Elliott
Roots of the Spirit Podcast
English - November 25, 2019 03:10 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Personal Journals africanamerican history blackhistory civilrightsmovement socialjustice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jane Elliott is an internationally known teacher who became famous after creating the "Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes Exercise" in her 3rd grade classroom in the late sixties. She is a lecturer, diversity trainer, antiracism advocate and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She exposes prejudice and bigotry as an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. Her mission… ONE RACE.
“I created a microcosm of society in my third-grade classroom on April 5, 1968,” Jane said, speaking of the iconic day, the day after the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, when she was inspired to create what would become known as her famed “Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes Exercise.” Her life’s work landed her on Oprah five times, inspired more than a handful of documentaries and has been credited as the impetus for the “diversity training” that many corporations and educational institutions still host for their employees today. Derived from Chandra Thomas Whitfield for NBCNews.com
website: www.janeelliott.com
Where can I buy her fabulous shirt!?
https://janeelliott.com/video-store/sweatshirt
National Geographic "The Race Issue" Spirit and Jane refer to in the show: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/#close