Jean Graetz, Alabama civil rights supporter, dead at 90
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, file photo, Gov. Robert Bentley, left, greets Robert Graetz, center, and his wife, Jean, before a screening of Selma at the AMC Festival 16 in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz openly supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was a Lutheran clergyman of a Black church in Montgomery starting in 1955. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File) APAP
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Jean Graetz, an early white supporter of equal rights for Black people in Alabama at the start of the civil rights movement, died early Wednesday, a family spokesman said.