00:06When civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, grief and frustration
00:13erupted in America's cities. And far away in Iowa, one third grade teacher knew she had to do
00:24something. The shooting of Martin Luther King could not just be talked about and explained
00:28a way. There was no way to explain this to little third graders in Riceville, Iowa. I knew that
00:33it was time to deal with this in a concrete way, not just talk about it, because we had
00:36talked about racism since the first day of school. This is a fact. Blue-eyed people are
00:43better than brown-eyed people. It was a daring experiment in prejudice. I watched wonderful,
00:50thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third graders. Can
00:59one teacher, in one day, change the lives of her students forever?
01:04Come here, friends!
