Marcus Foster
Marcus Albert Foster (March 31, 1923 – November 6, 1973) was an American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1966–1969), as Associate Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia (1969–1970), and as the first black superintendent of a large city school district. He was appointed in 1970 as Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California. Foster was assassinated in 1973 by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a then newly founded domestic terrorist group.
Genre: indie-folk
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Top Tracks
- All About My Mum
- Rest of My Days (feat. Marcus Foster)
- Solid Ground
- The Last House
- Strange Woods
- In This Town
- I Won't Let Love Get in the Way
- Worn Down by Time
- Worn Down by Time
- Watch This City Burn (OurVinyl Sessions)
- Won't Let Love Get in the Way (OurVinyl Sessions)
- If I Go Outside (OurVinyl Sessions)
- How Many Times
- Make a Move
- Letting Go
- Up to Me
- Between the Trees
- I Was Broken - Instrumental
- Beneath The Sea - Live At The Flowerpot, Kentish Town, July 2010
- Movement - Live At The Flowerpot, Kentish Town, July 2010
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