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White Lutheran minister who helped to organise the bus boycott in Alabama that became a pivotal moment in US civil rights

Short of black clergymen, the Lutheran Church sent a young white minister named Robert Graetz to take charge of the all-black Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. It warned him not to cause trouble, Graetz having joined the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and started a race relations...Short of black clergymen, the Lutheran Church sent a young white minister named Robert Graetz to...Short of black clergymen, the Lutheran Church sent a young white minister named Robert Graetz to...