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Memorial service held for early civil rights supporter Jean Graetz Memorial service held in Montgomery for civil rights activist Jean Graetz By WSFA Staff | January 24, 2021 at 5:11 PM CST - Updated January 24 at 6:23 PM MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A memorial service was held in remembrance of civil rights pioneer Jean Graetz Sunday. The service was held at the historic First Baptist Church in Montgomery. Graetz graduated from Alabama State University at 85-years-old with a degree in education. ASU’s Janice Franklin said the university wishes to honor Graetz for her legacy. “Mrs. Graetz had a very sweet, humble spirit. And she was a partner to her husband, Rev. Robert Graetz and just received everyone and worked quietly on behalf of equality for all,” Franklin said. ....
Alabama News Updated: Jean Graetz with hustband, Rev. Robert Graetz Photo by David Campbell/ASU The family of Jean Graetz, a nationally-known civil rights pioneer, held a virtual memorial service for her Sunday. Graetz died last month at her home in Montgomery at the age of 90. The service can be seen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PHQ2oJfaJ2g The service was held at Montgomery’s historic First Baptist Church (brick-a-day church), which played an important role during the early days of the civil rights movement as the home church of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, who joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. ....
Memorial set for Jean Graetz, early civil rights supporter January 23, 2021 GMT FILE - In this December 2005 file photo, Rev. Robert Graetz, second from left, and wife, Jeannie, sing along with Gladys Williams, right, on the Cleveland Avenue bus, during the walk of remembrance to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. (Karen S. Doerr/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) FILE - In this December 2005 file photo, Rev. Robert Graetz, second from left, and wife, Jeannie, sing along with Gladys Williams, right, on the Cleveland Avenue bus, during the walk of remembrance to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. (Karen S. Doerr/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) ....
Jean Graetz, White Supporter of Civil Rights in Alabama, Dies at 90 With her husband, Robert, Mrs. Graetz became a friend of Rosa Parks and supported the Montgomery bus boycott, despite threats to her life. Jean Graetz in 2018 at her home in Montgomery, Ala. She and her husband, Robert, were the targets of bombings in the 1950s for participating in civil rights efforts in Montgomery.Credit.Johnathon Kelso for The New York Times Dec. 19, 2020 Jean Graetz, who was among the few white people in Montgomery, Ala., to participate in the city’s civil rights movement in the 1950s pushing forward even as she faced slashed tires, obscene phone calls and multiple bombings died on Wednesday at her home in Montgomery. She was 90. ....
Civil rights supporter Jean Graetz dead By Staff | Dec 19, 2020 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – 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. Recently diagnosed with lung cancer, Graetz died at home less than three months after the death of husband Robert Graetz. Newsletter Interests ....