White minister who supported Montgomery bus boycott dies

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The only white minister to support the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott died Sunday. The Rev. Robert Graetz was 92. His daughter, Meta Ellis, shared the news in a Facebook post from the Southeastern Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Graetz was the minister of the majority-Black Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church in Montgomery and became the only local white clergyman to publicly support the historic boycott in 1955. The Montgomery parsonage where the Gr