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A Class Divided
On 5 April 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King, elementary school teacher Jane Elliott devised an exercise for her all-white third grade class in all-white Riceville, Iowa. The students would discriminate against each other based on eye-color. It gave the students a small taste of the emotional damage inflicted by everyday racial discrimination. This film, shot in 1970, shows Ms. Elliott leading the exercise with another third grade class.
Be The Change
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Read more about Jane Elliott's 1968 classroom experiment in racial empathy and learn more about her work with the exercise in the years since.
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30 years after Ms. Elliott's innovation, a Presidential Commission on Race in America published a report which included a list of 10 simple things we can all do to improve inter-racial empathy. Study that list.
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Take a moment to consider how racial prejudice and privilege have shaped the opportunities and experiences that have been important to you; and imagine the effects race may have had on the lives of other people with whom you interact today.
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