Jane Elliott Against the World

The morning after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Jane Elliott divided her all-white third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa, by eye color. Her lesson in discrimination made her a national figure and a target.

Nearly sixty years later, JANE ELLIOTT AGAINST THE WORLD finds her as funny and combative as ever. She stands with students, teachers, and families in Temecula, California, fighting restrictions on teaching race and history. At home, her daughters ask her to acknowledge what her refusal to stay silent has cost them.

The woman who spent a lifetime asking others to change must now try to change herself.