Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott is an internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, who exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.

In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise.” This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority.

Learning Materials Recommended by Jane Elliott:

Typical Statements
Clarification to Typical Statements
Commitment to Combat Racism
 

Books Recommended by Jane Elliott:

• When at Times the Mob is Swayed: A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic by Burt Neuborne
• The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Additional book recommendations 

Consider visiting local Decatur bookstores to purchase or request these books.