Bibliograph

A class divided, a production of Yale University Films for Frontline ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston ; producer-director, William Peters ; writers, William Peters, Charlie Cobb

Type

Label

A class divided, a production of Yale University Films for Frontline ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston ; producer-director, William Peters ; writers, William Peters, Charlie Cobb

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

A class divided

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

52343621

Responsibility statement

a production of Yale University Films for Frontline ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston ; producer-director, William Peters ; writers, William Peters, Charlie Cobb

Runtime

Summary

In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jane Elliott, a public school teacher in Riceville, Iowa, divided her all-white third-graders into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups for a lesson in discrimination. On successive days, each group was treated as inferior and subjected to discrimination. A 1970 documentary, Eye of the storm, presented this experiment on television. This documentary reunites the teacher and students 15 years after the experiment to analyze its enduring effects

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification