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Summary: A class divided. “A class divided” is a video documentary produced by FRONTLINE which illustrates the story contained in a book originally written in 1971. This book was readapted in 1987 by William Peters with a new title called “A class divided: Then and now.” This video tells the story of a third grade teacher, Jane Elliot, who decided to treat kids with blue eyes as though they were superior to those with brown eyes. It also shows the effect her action had on these students up to date. Jane Elliot was a teacher in a school of a small town, Riceville in Iowa, in which she lived. The town was homogeneous and Jane realized that her student had no experience with discrimination. The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated,

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