Jane Elliott, a former Iowa elementary schoolteacher whose 1968 classroom exercise in discrimination became the basis for several television documentaries, will speak at Cornell College on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Admission is free.
Shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Elliott engaged her third-graders in Riceville, Iowa, in an exercise to illustrate the effects of discrimination. The superior group behaved well and successfully finished classroom assignments. The exercise has been repeated with children and adults throughout the country. Jane Elliott lives in Osage, Iowa, and lectures throughout the country to corporations, government agencies, colleges and community groups.