Half a Man While it remained on "Billboard's" chart for five weeks, it spent twelve weeks on "Cashbox's" country singles chart, and peaked at number twenty. Merle Haggard covered the song in his 1982 release "Going Where the Lonely Go". Nelson recorded again the track in a duet with George Jones for his 1985 duet album "Half Nelson". Half a Man "Half a Man" is a song written by country music singer Willie Nelson. The song was released as the A-side of the single for his second Liberty Records album, "Here's Willie Nelson". Despite it received mixed airplay for its content, the song
A Class Divided A Class Divided A Class Divided is a 1985 episode of the PBS series "Frontline". Directed by William Peters, the episode profiles the Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott and her class of third graders, who took part in a class exercise about discrimination and prejudice in 1970 and reunited in the present day to recall the experience. In 1968, following the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jane Elliott tried discussing issues of discrimination, racism, and prejudice with her third grade class in Riceville, Iowa. Not feeling that the discussion was getting through to her class, who did not