Mrs. Roseman, my sixth grade teacher, wanted to teach us a lesson one day in 1976. It was based on a famous exersize called "blue eyes, brown eyes,'' designed in 1968 by Jane Elliot, an Iowa third ...

Jane Elliott is 84 years old, a tiny woman with white hair, wire-rim glasses and little patience. She has been talking about how ridiculous it is to judge someone based on the color of their skin for ...