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| Chosen as one of Peter Jennings' (ABC-TV)
"Person of the Week" winners, Jane Elliott is the adaptor of the "Blue
Eyes, Brown Eyes" discrimination experiment. The sensitizing exercise,
in which participants are labeled inferior or superior based on the
color of their eyes, began in a third-grade classroom in all-white,
all-Christian Riceville, Iowa, immediately after the assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It has been repeated with dramatic results
with children and adults throughout the country. Those who have been
through this exercise have said it is an emotionally significant and
life-changing experience. |
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