The documentary "A Class Divided" follows teacher Jane Elliott as she experiments in her Iowa classroom. In the film "A Class Divided," a teacher named Jane Elliott in Iowa conducts an experiment with her students after learning of the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The experiment is conducted after MLK's murder. Ms. Elliott's class divided the students into two groups, one for each iris hue. Soon after, she treated the first set of people as superior to the second. Her goal was to prove that the first set of people was superior.