<P> The compositions that the children wrote about the experience were printed in the Riceville Recorder on page 4 on April 18, 1968, under the headline "How Discrimination Feels", and the story was picked up by the Associated Press . Because of the Associated Press article, Elliott was invited to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . After she spoke about her exercise in a short interview segment, the audience reaction was instant as hundreds of calls came into the show's telephone switchboard, much of it negative . An often - quoted letter stated, "How dare you try this cruel experiment out on white children? Black children grow up accustomed to such behavior, but white children, there's no way they could possibly understand it . It's cruel to white children and will cause them great psychological damage ." </P> <P> The publicity that Elliott was getting did not make her popular in Riceville . When she walked into the teachers' lounge the day after her Tonight Show appearance, several other teachers walked out . When she went downtown to do errands, she heard whispers . When her oldest daughter went to the girls' bathroom in junior high, she came out of a stall to see a hateful message scrawled in red lipstick for her on the mirror . </P> <P> Of all her coworkers, Elliott states that only one of them, Ruth Setka, continued to speak to her after her exercise went public . Setka said that she realized she was the only one who kept speaking to her . Setka believed that the reason Eliott's exercise got so much backlash was because the students were very young and that the exercise should have been done on at least junior high school aged students . In a 2003 interview, Elliot said that about 20% of the Riceville community were still furious with her over what she did on April 4, and some still called her "n - word lover", but she was grateful for the other 80% . </P> <P> However, as news of her exercise spread, she appeared on more television shows and started to repeat the exercise in professional training days for adults . On December 15, 1970, Elliott staged the experience to adult educators at a White House Conference on Children and Youth . </P>

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