I have been searching for educational videos about how to teach our children the subject of racism, hoping that if it was so simply and purely stated that even a child could understand it, that maybe... a few adults could learn a thing or two. I will keep searching, but I came across this and it just blew me away.
From Frontline's encore presentation in 1985
the description of the film....
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small
town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat
children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and
how it still affects them today.
A Class Divided is an encore presentation of the classic
documentary on third-grade teacher Jane Elliott's "blue eyes/brown eyes"
exercise, originally conducted in the days following the assassination
of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
