So, she thought up a an experiment. She would give the brown-eyed children in classroom special privileges and tell them there were smart.

Blue-eyed children were given special privileges, while brown-eyed children had to sit in the back of the classroom and couldn't use the same drinking fountain as blue-eyed classmates.

University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom said his next book will be an in-depth look at former Riceville teacher Jane Elliott's "blue eyes/brown eyes" experiment.

Elliott achieved celebrity for her "blue eyes/brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted in 1968 with her third grade class the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

Have other films been made about Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed lesson in discrimination? The very first documentary about Elliott's exercise was made by William Peters in 1970 for ABC News.

Jane Elliott, an anti-racism activist best known for her April 5, 1968, blue eyes, brown eyes experiment demonstrating that prejudice is a learned behavior, recently condemned Republican efforts ...