HIT: Blue-, brown-eyed racism experiment

[Jan Bakker <bakker@NCREL.ORG>]

Thanks to everyone around North America (and Japan) who provided information
for my recent reference request.  Here's the hit some of you requested:

Teacher/Location:  Jane Elliott - third grade class at Riceville, Iowa,
Community Elementary School
Date initiated:     April, 1968, following assassination of Dr. King.

Videos:         Eye of the Storm (ABC documentary produced by William
Peters).  These distributors were mentioned:  Social Studies School Service;
Guidance Associates; and Center for Humanities in Mount Cisco, NY
(1-800-431-1242).
                        A Class Divided - 1984 (PBS:  1-800-424-7963).  Also
a book by William Peters.  (Doubleday                         in New York)

Magazine Article:  "Brown Eyes - Blue Eyes" condensed from A Class Divided
by William Peters,  Readers' Digest, April, 1971, pages 61-65.

Similar topics:                 The Wave - about a similar experiment in
Palo Alto, CA, 1969.  (Book/Movie)
                                            The War Between the Classes,
book by Gloria Miklowitz.

Thanks to:  E. Anne Larson (Jane Elliott's cousin); Lucy Kempton, Linda
Wolfgram, Kathleen O'Brien, Katie Chilton, Sandra Musil, Shelley Glantz,
Linda Greengrass, Kari Inglis, Cathy Johnsoh, Joyce Hintz, Marianne Hunter,
Sue Yahng, Carey Bacon, Karen Burnett, Melanie Killam, R. Jean Gustafson,
Carolyn Roys, Mabra Barge, Johanna P., Linda Kinne, Clarence Falk, Beth
Pounds, and Kathy Tobiason.



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