Rev. Robert Graetz was a Lutheran minister and civil rights activist who was among the residents of Montgomery, Alabama who organized a historic bus boycott.Graetz was a young minister, relatively new to Montgomery, when Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005) was arrested in 1955 for refusing to yield her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
As civil rights activists began spreading the word about a plan for Black residents to boycott the city bus in protest, Graetz encouraged his congregation at the majority-Black Trinity Lutheran Church to join the boycott.
He offered rides to work to anyone who needed them. As the boycott – originally intended to be for a single day – continued for months, Graetz gave rides to as many as 50 people each day.
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