Summary: In a career spanning nearly six decades, Jane Elliott has enjoyed a level of notoriety rare among public school teachers. Her fame can be traced back to one lesson she taught in April 1968 to her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa. Distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Elliott says she wanted to impress upon her all-white students the power of prejudice faced by African-Americans and other minority groups.
