{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\u201cBlue-Eyes\/Brown-Eyes" Exercise Creator \/ Educator, Jane Elliott","description":"Jane Elliott is an internationally known teacher who became famous after creating the "Blue-Eyes\/Brown-Eyes Exercise" in her 3rd grade classroom in the late sixties. She is a lecturer, diversity trainer, antiracism advocate and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education. She exposes prejudice and bigotry as an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. Her mission\u2026 ONE RACE. \u201cI created a microcosm of society in my third-grade classroom on April 5, 1968,\u201d Jane said, speaking of the iconic day, the day after the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s assassination, when she was inspired to create what would become known as her famed \u201cBlue-Eyes\/Brown-Eyes Exercise.\u201d Her life\u2019s work landed her on Oprah five times, inspired more than a handful of documentaries and has been credited as the impetus for the \u201cdiversity training\u201d that many corporations and educational institutions still host for their employees today. Derived from Chandra Thomas Whitfield for NBCNews.com website: www.janeelliott.com Where can I buy her fabulous shirt!?  https:\/\/janeelliott.com\/video-store\/sweatshirt  National Geographic "The Race Issue" Spirit and Jane refer to in the show: https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/#close   ","author_name":"Roots of the Spirit Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.rootsofthespirit.com","html":"