Noted Educator to Speak at Tech for Women’s History Month

Michigan Tech will celebrate Women’s History Month with a visit from an internationally-known teacher, lecturer and diversity trainer.

The address by National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence winner Jane Elliott is the final event in Tech’s Social Justice Lecture Series. She will speak at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 in Fisher Hall 135.

Elliot gained national prominence with her “Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Experiment” where her blue-eyed students were treated better than brown-eyed students.

She first conducted the famous exercise for her class the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

Elliott’s exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third-graders to become “The Eye of the Storm.”

This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in A Class Divided.

Elliott will have copies of her book “A Collar In My Pocket” for purchase at her lecture, and will then be available to sign them after the talk.