Frontline

Season 3, Episode 9

Episode Title: A Class Divided

Air Date: 1985-03-26

Overview:

One 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 30 years later.