Composite image of portraits and text by photographer Mike Whye showing teacher Jane Elliott and two boys in her class in a small town in Riceville, Iowa (population currently 800). The photos are part of an advertisement for a show called ‘Frontline’ produced by PBS. Jane Elliott did a classroom experiment in prejudice beginning on April 5, 1968, The short paragraph in the photomontage says, in partL “Shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Jane Elliott decided to give her third grad students a lesson in discrimination. She told them blue-eyed children were superior to those with brown eyes. Russell King has brown eyes. John Bentine has blue eyes. They were in one of the early classes in which Elliott taught the lesson she still gives students today.”
During this lesson, blue-eyed students became bossy and arrogant. Their grades improved, while brown-eyed children became more withdrawn and had lower grades.