THE BLUE-EYED, BROWN-EYED EXERCISE by CommonLit Staff

What elements of Jane Elliott’s exercise paralleled the experiences of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement?

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*DUE SOON*

The elements of Jane Elliott’s exercise paralleled the experiences of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement:

The elements that Jane Elliott used to demonstrate the experience of African Americans during the civil rights movement are  similar to the experiences blacks faced at that time.

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1. Jane Elliot separated the group of blue eyed students from the brown eye students.

"On that first day of the exercise, she designated the blue-eyed children as the superior group. Elliott provided brown fabric collars and asked the blue-eyed students to wrap them around the necks of their brown-eyed peers as a method to easily identify the minority group"

2. She gave the blue eyed children extra privileges.

"She gave the blue-eyed children extra privileges, such as second helpings at lunch, access to the new jungle gym, and five extra minutes at recess. The blue-eyed children sat in the front of the classroom, and the brown-eyed children were sent to sit in the back rows"

3. She highlighted negative aspects of brown eyed children.

"She often exemplified the differences between the two groups by singling out students and would use negative aspects of brown-eyed children to emphasize a point"

Explanation:

From the the above elements Jane Elliot used to demonstrate the experiences of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, they are all similar experiences the blacks faced during that era.

1. There was heavy segregation: the blacks were not allowed to go to the same schools with whites, they were not allowed to enter the same bus, they lived in a different part of town from whites.

2. The whites had extra privileges, they were allowed to vote, they were allowed to become pilots while the blacks had no access to this.

3. The whites would magnify the negative aspects of blacks in the society and using the wrongdoings of a minority to judge how all blacks behave.