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