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The Murder of a Great Educator
  + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Robert Maranto | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from from Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyNov. 6 is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important assassinations in U.S. history. Fifty years ago, while leaving a school-board meeting, the nation’s first black big-city school superintendent, Oakland, Calif.’s, Marcus Foster , was ambushed and killed instantly by a volley of cyanide-filled bullets. Marcus Foster was one of America’s greatest educators. As a principal in his native Philadelphia, he turned around three inner-city public schools in the 1950s and ’60s.
Persons: Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady, Dan Henninger, Mark Kelly, Marcus Foster, Foster “, , ” John P, Spencer, Organizations: Zuma Press, Reuters, American School Reform Locations: Oakland, Calif, Philadelphia
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