Jane Elliott wanted to teach her third graders an important lesson about race and equality. ... “Anybody here who considers themselves a member of the white race, stand up,” Elliott said.

At age 89 Jane Elliott has lost none of her feistiness, and she admits to having no patience with people who are willfully ignorant. ... Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading.

The day after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott carried out the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise in her classroom. Now, people are returning to her work.

But other people need to realize that this ugliness is still going on and that it’s still dangerous to stand up and be counted. I think the films of the exercise teach some really important lessons.

Jane Elliott was a 3rd grade teacher working in Riceville in 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. ... Now 91, her conviction to educate and stand up to racism is as strong as ever.

Jane Elliott has blue eyes. The years have turned her once-brown hair a bright snowy white, and at 75 years old she’s rounder, maybe shorter, than she used to be. But eye color doesn’t change.

Anti-Racism educator Jane Elliott speaks out about Obama’s legacy, BLM, Trump’s presidency and how America can begin to heal it's racial divide.

Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated.

Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated.