For two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, gave her pupils a unique lesson in discrimination. The first day, brown-eyed children were declared "superior," given special privileges, and encouraged to discriminate against their suddenly "inferior" blue-eyed classmates. The next day, roles were reversed. What happened astonished both students and teacher. On both days, children labeled "inferior" took on the look and behavior of genuinely inferior students; they did inferior work. "Superior" students excelled in their work and...
For two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, gave her pupils a unique lesson in disc...
In 1967, when this brave book was first published, Myrlie Evers said, -Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.-
Medgar Evers died in a horrifying act of political violence. Among both blacks and whites the killing of this Mississippi civil rights leader intensified the menacing moods of unrest and discontent generated during the civil rights era. His death seemed to usher in a succession of political shootings--Evers, then John Kennedy, then Martin Luther King, Jr., then Robert Kennedy.
At thirty-seven while field secretary for the NAACP, Evers was gunned down...
In 1967, when this brave book was first published, Myrlie Evers said, -Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.-
