Marcus Albert Foster, an influential educator and the first Black superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, was tragically assassinated on November 6, 1973, at the age of 50. Foster was leaving a school board meeting when he and his deputy, Robert Blackburn, were ambushed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical leftist group. Foster was shot multiple times with bullets laced with cyanide, leading to his immediate death, while Blackburn was severely injured but
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