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Born in Clarksburg, Robert Sylvester Graetz Jr. (May 16, 1928 - September 20, 2020) helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, and was the only White minister in the highly segregated Alabama city to support the boycott publicly.The son of an eng...
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