Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality

The never—before—told true story of Jane Elliott and the “Blue—Eyes, Brown—Eyes Experiment” she made world—famous, using eye color to simulate racism.

The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Jane Elliott, a schoolteacher in rural Iowa, introduced to her all—white third—grade class a shocking experiment to demonstrate the scorching impact of racism. Elliott separated students into two groups. She instructed the brown—eyed children to heckle and berate the blue—eyed st...