frontline: a class divided | PBS

frontline: a class divided | PBSOne day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power thirty years later.
The day in question was the day after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.