2005-Present

Post date: Mar 31, 2013 4:32:47 AM

Jeannie returned to her roots in Montgomery, where she and Bob are currently serving as “Ambassadors-in-Residence” for the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University (ASU). They are the honorees of the annual “Bob and Jeannie Graetz Symposium on Human Rights and Reconciliation” at ASU. They speak to school and community groups around the world about civil rights, and they lead groups through the South to visit civil rights sites and meet the people still living there who were a part of the struggle. Now in their mid-80s, the Graetzes continue to set a grand example of the importance of education: Jeannie returned to school at ASU to finish the degree in Elementary Education she started almost 64 years ago. They are committed to education and passing on the legacy of the civil rights era, showing children by example that “The Dream Lives in You.”

Jeannie and Bob have continued their fight for justice on many different fronts, whenever and wherever they have seen oppression and discrimination, for in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “Injustice anywhere is an affront to justice everywhere.”