NEGRO BUS BOYCOTT
Minister’s Home Damaged
(Rec. 8.35 p.m.) MONTGOMERY’(AIabama), Aug. 25. An explosion early today damaged the home of a young white minister who has been active in Montgomery’s eight-month-old negro bus boycott. Police said it might have been a bomb. No-one was injured, however, because the minister (the Rev. Robert Graetz) and his family were away from home. Mr Graetz, aged 27, is a white pastor of the all-negro Trinity Lutheran Church. His home adjQins the church in a negro residential section. The young clergyman has actively supported negro bus boycotters wno have refused to ride in segregated city buses since last December 5. He is a member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, an organisation mostly of negroes supporting the boycott, and has used his personal car to give rides to negroes to and from work. Police said the explosion knocked out several windows in Mr Graetz’s home and blew the lock off the front door. They said it left a hole in the front yard “about big enough to put a two-gallon bucket in.” The dynamiting was the third such incident since the bus boycott began
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28057, 27 August 1956, Page 11
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