What is Robert Graetz?
{{Infobox person | image = | image_size = 225px | caption= | birth_name =Robert Sylvester Graetz Jr. | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|5|16}} | birth_place = [[Clarksburg, West Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|9|20|1928|5|16|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[Montgomery, Alabama]], U.S. | party = | spouse =[[Jean Graetz|Jean Ellis]] | children = | alma_mater=[[Capital University]], [[Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary]] | website = | occupation = Clergyman, activist | movement = [[Civil Rights Movement]] | organization =[[Montgomery Improvement Association]] | Footnotes = }} '''Robert Sylvester Graetz Jr.''' (May 16, 1928 – September 20, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Lutheran]] [[clergyman]]. He was the white pastor of a black congregation in [[Montgomery, Alabama]]. He openly supported the [[Montgomery bus boycott]] and became a well known activist during the [[civil rights movement]]. Graetz died from [[Parkinson's disease]] at his home in [[Montgomery, Alabama]] on September 20, 2020 at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Blinder|first=Alan|date=September 20, 2020|title=Robert S. Graetz, Rare White Minister to Back Bus Boycott, Dies at 92|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/obituaries/robert-graetz-dead.html|access-date=September 21, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Graetz, Robert}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American civil rights activists]] [[Category:Writers from West Virginia]] [[Category:Writers from Montgomery, Alabama]] [[Category:American Lutherans]] [[Category:Religious people]] [[Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Alabama]] {{US-bio-stub}}