When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher in Iowa, decided to implement an exercise in her classroom to help her students understand racism and discrimination. She divided the class into students with brown eyes and students with blue eyes; she then spent one day discriminating against the brown-eyed students and the next discriminating against the blue-eyed students, and encouraged the students to discriminate against each other. In 1970, the exercise was filmed by PBS. Fourteen years later, the students in the film reunited to watch it and
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