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Jane Elliott is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Wikipedia
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter pointed his microphone toward a local black leader and asked things like "When our leader [ John F. Kennedy ] was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people?"
Elliott then decided to combine a lesson she had planned about Native Americans with a lesson she had planned about Martin Luther King Jr. for February's Hero of the Month project. At the moment she was watching the news of King's death, Elliott says she was ironing a teepee for use in a lesson unit about Native Americans. [8] To tie the two lessons together, she used the Sioux prayer "Oh great spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I have walked in his moccasins. [ sic ]" [9] She wanted to give her small-town, all-white students the experience of walking in a "colored child's moccasins for a day". [6]
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On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter pointed his microphone toward a local black leader and asked things like "When our leader [ John F. Kennedy ] was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people?"
Elliott then decided to combine a lesson she had planned about Native Americans with a lesson she had planned about Martin Luther King Jr. for February's Hero of the Month project. At the moment she was watching the news of King's death, Elliott says she was ironing a teepee for use in a lesson unit about Native Americans. [8] To tie the two lessons together, she used the Sioux prayer "Oh great spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I have walked in his moccasins. [ sic ]" [9] She wanted to give her small-town, all-white students the experience of walking in a "colored child's moccasins for a day". [6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#/media/File:Lorraine_Motel,_Memphis,_TN,_US.jpg
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