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Author: Robert S. Graetz, Jr. ,
John Lewis
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: NewSouth Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781588381903
ISBN 10: 1588381900
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 July 2006
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"Graetz is an extraordinary advocate for human rights for everyone, including LGBT people, whom he sees as part of the beloved community. This book recounts Graetz's experience as a Lutheran pastor during the Montgomery, Ala., boycotts and how it shaped a long ministerial career emphasizing equality and justice issues. In addition to Graetz's boycott memoirs, this book discusses white privilege, black forgiveness, and the challenges for LGBT people.-- ""Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith Newsletter"""
Graetz is an extraordinary advocate for human rights for everyone, including LGBT people, whom he sees as part of the beloved community. This book recounts Graetz's experience as a Lutheran pastor during the Montgomery, Ala., boycotts and how it shaped a long ministerial career emphasizing equality and justice issues. In addition to Graetz's boycott memoirs, this book discusses white privilege, black forgiveness, and the challenges for LGBT people. -- Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith Newsletter
A White Preacher's Message on Race and Reconciliation by Robert S. Graetz Jr. Graetz is an extraordinary advocate for human rights for everyone, including GLBT people, whom he sees as part of the beloved community. This book recounts Graetz's experience as a Lutheran pastor during the Montgomery, Ala., boycotts and how it shaped a long ministerial career emphasizing equality and justice issues. In addition to Graetz's boycott memoirs, this book discusses white privilege, black forgiveness and the challenges for GLBT people. --Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith newsletter
Author Information
ROBERT S. GRAETZ, JR. (1928-2020) served Lutheran churches in four states, always with a ministry dedicated to what his friend Martin Luther King, Jr., termed the “beloved community.” In retirement, he remained active with numerous progressive organizations and in civil rights causes. With his wife, Jeannie Ellis Graetz, he led study tours of Deep South civil rights sites for U.S. and international students and visitors. The Graetzes lived permanently near McArthur, Ohio, but, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, they accepted a 2005-07 appointment as ambassadors-in-residence for the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture at Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama.
