Montgomery: A White Preacher's Memoir

ISBN: 0800624556

Author: Graetz, Robert S.

Condition: Used

In this eloquent, compassionate memoir, Bob Graetz
describes how in 1955 he was a young white Lutheran minister assigned to
a black church in Montgomery, Alabama. Before the year was out, Rosa
Parks was arrested and the Bus Boycott began. Graetz became the only
local white minister who supported the boycott, and he and his family
were thrust into the center of the year-long struggle that kicked off the
modern Civil Rights Movement. The Graetz family endured bombings,
arrests, and regular harassment, but they also rejoiced in the remarkable
spirit of a black community throwing off the shackles of segregation.
Graetz's memoir describes the inner workings of the boycott and gives
personal glimpses of Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Fred Gray, and others among the boycott leaders.