Graetz, Robert S., 1928-2020
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- Organization: Trinity Lutheran Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
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- Organization: (naf) Lutheran Church
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Lutheran Church--Clergy
Civil rights workers
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found: His Montgomery, a white preacher's memoir, c1991:CIP t.p. (Robert S. Graetz) data sht. (b. 5/15/28)
found: Dickerson, J.E. Robert S. Graetz : walk humbly for justice, 2006?:text (Rev. Robert S. Graetz; Bob Graetz)
found: The New York Times, Robert S. Graetz, rare white minister to back bus boycott, dies at 92, September 20, 2020, updated September 22, 2020, viewed online September 22, 2020(Robert S. Graetz Jr.; supported the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, with help from his wife, Jeannie Graetz; as pastor of Montgomery's all-Black Trinity Lutheran Church, he was a forceful advocate for equality, accepting scorn and derision; gave rides to work to his parishioners during the strike; targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists; after several years he and family moved to Ohio where he had taken a position at a church; born in Clarksburg, W. Va. on May 16, 1928, to a family with a lineage of Lutheran clergymen; studied theology at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, where he became interested in civil rights, founded campus group to focus on race relations, and joined Columbus chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.; died at his home in Montgomery on Sunday [September 20])
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1991-06-26: new
2020-09-23: revised
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