White minister who supported Montgomery bus boycott dies

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White minister who supported Montgomery bus boycott dies​

The only white minister to support the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott has died
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press
September 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Rev. Robert Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott and who became the target of scorn and bombings for doing so, died Sunday. He was 92.

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Graetz was the minister of the majority-Black Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church in Montgomery. Graetz was the only local white clergyman to support the boycott. He and his wife, Jeannie, faced harassment, threats and bombings as a result.

Sparked by the December 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks, the planned one-day boycott of Montgomery City Lines became a 381-day protest of the segregated bus system that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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Someone to admire. We should remember and thank them for their bravery.
 
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Someone to admire.
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Indeed. He took a brave, and deeply unpopular stance. He put himself and his family in mortal danger because he had the gall to oppose segregation. White supremacy is a powerful and nasty thing.

The world is a better place because of Rev. Graetz. May someone say the same about us one day.
 
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